{"product_id":"reintroducing-gabriel-tarde-9781032053974","title":"Reintroducing Gabriel Tarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a new introduction to the thought of Gabriel Tarde, highlighting the continuing relevance, and even the novelty, of both his general theoretical approach and many of his specific analyses. Showing that Tarde elaborates a comprehension of the social that was received with difficulty in his time but is increasingly akin to ours, it demonstrates that the infinitesimal sociology offered to us by Tarde provides a framework through which we can understand a whole range of social phenomena. With attention to social networks, public opinion, innovation, diffusion, virality and virtualityall of which were topics addressed by Tarde himselfthe author clarifies and elaborates upon Tarde's central theses on the multiple, differential, infinitesimal and infinite nature of both the social and the subjective. An examination of the importance of a figure whose work looked ahead to our own age, \u003ci\u003eReintroducing Gabriel Tarde \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to scholars and students of social sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION | Hypothesis about an oblivion and remembrance plan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere to locate Tarde’s work?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree classical readings and a (neo) baroque one\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMultitudes in heaven and Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem of the social and its pure sociology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1 | Infinite and social theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfinitesimals or differentials\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe labyrinth of the continuum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeibniz’s universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe composition of the infinite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTowards an infinitist social theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMicro-mega\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2 | Individual, Society and Social Field \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the society to individuals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom points to lines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe social as skein, the individual as wool ball\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeliefs and desires as infinitesimal social forces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfinitesimal sociology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3 | The social as contagion, creation and fight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial hypnosis (not everything is wakefulness with eyes wide open)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContagion lines and social epidemics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpposition, conflict, struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe social as a field of struggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom doubt to war\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvention as social relation (and as engine of History)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdaptation: difference and integration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContingency and necessity \/ virtuality and actuality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat and small \/ chance and reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4 | \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSociology of flows and ensembles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe logic of social contagion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial logic and persuasive syllogisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNon-logic laws of imitation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world within the home and vice versa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial ensembles or systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial intelligence and general will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA science of intensive communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5 | The Continuity of the multitudes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Crowd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe multitude as paradigm and laboratory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe individual, the crowd and its leaders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe corporation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe public, the mass-media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvolution and metamorphosis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAPPENDIX | Cartographical note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarde in Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarde in North-America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack to France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDEX \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018814325079,"sku":"9781032053974","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032053974.jpg?v=1750778248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reintroducing-gabriel-tarde-9781032053974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}