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The Social after Gabriel Tarde - Debates and Assessments (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Social after Gabriel Tarde - Debates and Assessments (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Gabriel Tarde was a highly influential figure in 19th century
French sociology: a prolific and evocative writer whose
understanding of the social differed radically from that of his
younger opponent Emile Durkheim. Whereas Durkheimian sociology went
on to become the core of the social scientific canon throughout
much of the 20th century, Tarde's sociology fell out of the
picture, and he was remembered mostly through a few footnotes in
which Durkheim dismissed him as an individualist, a psychologist
and a metaphysician. The social sciences and humanities are now
being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of
the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom 'every thing is a
society and every science a sociology'. Tarde is being brought
forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era.
Reclaimed from a century of near-oblivion, his sociology has been
linked to Foucaultian microphysics of power, to Deleuze's
philosophy of difference, and most recently to the spectrum of
approaches related to Actor Network Theory. In this connection,
Bruno Latour hailed Tarde's sociology as "an alternative beginning
for an alternative social science". This volume asks what such an
alternative social science might look like. This second edition has
been expanded to include, alongside the original chapters, two key
essays by Gabriel Tarde himself - Monadology and Sociology and The
Two Elements of Sociology, as well as a significantly revised and
extended introduction by the editor.
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