{"product_id":"the-social-after-gabriel-tarde-9781138119550","title":"The Social after Gabriel Tarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriel 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, Tardeâs 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 âevery thing is a society and every science a sociologyâ. 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Revisiting Tarde’s house, \u003ci\u003eMatei Candea \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Two Essays \u003c\/b\u003e1. Monadology and Sociology, \u003ci\u003eGabriel Tarde \u003c\/i\u003e2. The Two Elements of Sociology, \u003ci\u003eGabriel Tarde \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: \u003c\/b\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eThe Distance that Lay Between’: The Tarde–Durkheim debate reconsidered \u003c\/b\u003e3.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe Debate, \u003ci\u003eGabriel Tarde \u0026amp; Emile Durkheim \u003c\/i\u003e4. Imitation: Returning to the Tarde–Durkheim debate, \u003ci\u003eBruno Karsenti \u003c\/i\u003e5. The Value of a Beautiful Memory: Imitation as borrowing in serious play at making mortuary sculptures in New Ireland, \u003ci\u003eKaren Sykes \u003c\/i\u003e6. Tarde and Durkheim and the Non-Sociological Ground of Sociology, \u003ci\u003eDavid Toews \u003c\/i\u003e7. If there is no such thing as Society, is Ritual Still Special? On using The Elementary Forms after Tarde, \u003ci\u003eJoel Robbins \u003c\/i\u003e8. One or Three: Issues of comparison, \u003ci\u003eTimothy Jenkins \u003c\/i\u003e9. The Height, Length and Width of Social Theory, \u003ci\u003eAlberto Corsín Jiménez \u003c\/i\u003e10. Faith, Reason and the Ethic of Craftsmanship: Creating contingently stable worlds, \u003ci\u003ePenny Harvey \u0026amp; Soumhya Venkatesan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Quantifying, Tracing, Relating: Fragments of Tardean method \u003c\/b\u003e11. Tarde’s Idea of Quantification, \u003ci\u003eBruno Latour \u003c\/i\u003e12. Gabriel Tarde and Statistical Movement, \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel Didier \u003c\/i\u003e13. Tarde’s Method: Between statistics and experimentation, \u003ci\u003eAndrew Barry \u003c\/i\u003e14. Intervening with the Social? Ethnographic practice and Tarde’s image of relations between subjects, \u003ci\u003eJames Leach \u003c\/i\u003e15. Tarde on Drugs, Or Measures Against Suicide, \u003ci\u003eEduardo Viana Vargas \u003c\/i\u003e16. On Tardean Relations: Temporality and ethnography, \u003ci\u003eGeorgina Born \u003c\/i\u003e17. Pass it On: Towards a political economy of propensity, \u003ci\u003eNigel Thrift \u003c\/i\u003e18. \"Prova d'orchestra\" or Society as Possession, \u003ci\u003eBruno Latour \u003c\/i\u003eAfterword, \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577806524759,"sku":"9781138119550","price":166.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-after-gabriel-tarde-9781138119550","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}