From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault
The Infinitesimal Revolution
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
| Author: | Sergio Tonkonoff | ISBN: | 9783319551494 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | Publication: | July 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sergio Tonkonoff |
| ISBN: | 9783319551494 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Publication: | July 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated in the infinite social multiplicity-invention-imitation-opposition-open system. Guided by infinitist ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimal difference, this paradigm offers a micro-socio-logic capable of producing new ways of understanding social life and its vicissitudes. In the field of social theory, this can be called the infinitesimal revolution.
This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated in the infinite social multiplicity-invention-imitation-opposition-open system. Guided by infinitist ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimal difference, this paradigm offers a micro-socio-logic capable of producing new ways of understanding social life and its vicissitudes. In the field of social theory, this can be called the infinitesimal revolution.
