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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of
nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English
readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available
Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his continuing
relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers. Tarde's
landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective
behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be
explained within the context of broader social patterns. Unlike the
mass society theorists that followed in his wake, Tarde integrated
his discussions of societal change at the macrosocietal and
individual levels, anticipating later twentieth-century thinkers
who fused the studies of mass communications and public opinion
research. Terry N. Clark's introduction, considered the premier
guide to Tarde's opus, and a foreword by Morris Janowitz accompany
this important work, reprinted here for the first time in forty
years.
Gabriel Tarde's Monadology and Sociology, originally published in
1893, is a remarkable and unclassifiable book. It sets out a theory
of 'universal sociology', which aims to explicate the essentially
social nature of all phenomena, including the behaviour of atoms,
stars, chemical substances and living beings. He argues that all of
nature consists of elements animated by belief and desire, which
form social aggregates analogous to those of human societies and
institutions. In developing this central insight, Tarde outlines a
metaphysical system which builds on both classical rationalist
philosophy and the latest scientific theories of the time, in a
speculative synthesis of extraordinary range and power. Tarde's
work has only recently returned to prominence after a long eclipse.
His work was an important influence on later theorists including
Deleuze and Latour, and has been widely discussed in the social
sciences, but has rarely been a focus of philosophical interest.
The translator's afterword provides an explication of the key ideas
in the text and situates Tarde's theory within the context of the
philosophical tradition, arguing for the importance of the text as
a highly original work of systematic ontology, and for its
importance for contemporary theoretical debates.
And With An Introduction By Roscoe Pound.
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