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The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments

By Matei Candea

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0415543398, 9780415543392
LCC
HM477.F8 S62 2010
Open Library ID
OL23643973M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1403744 bytes)
Series
Culture, Economy and the Social (CRESC)
Edition
1
Pages
304\304
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 ‘everything 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.

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