From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault

The Infinitesimal Revolution

Sergio Tonkonoff

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319551487
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319551494
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

 

 

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Microsociology, Micropolitics, and Microphysics: Toward the Paradigm of Infinitesimal Difference
• Tarde and the Infinitesimal Sociology
• Individuals, Publics, and Crowds. Where Does Social Change Come From?
• Diffusion or War? Foucault as a Reader of Tarde
• Desire, Assemblages, Machines. Deleuze et al
• The Reason for Being of the Finite
• Back Matter