From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault: The Infinitesimal Revolution (Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology)

Annotation 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 Tarde, Deleuze, Foucault Microsociology, Micropolitics, and Microphysics: Toward the Paradigm of Infinitesimal Difference Tarde and the Inftnitesimal Sociology Diffusion or War? Foucault as a Reader of Tarde Desire, Assemblages, Machines. Deleuze et al. The Reason for Being of the Finite - Social Field: What Could Be a Pure Relation? Series Editor François Dépelteau Laurentian University FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTENTS Microsociology, Micropolitics, NOTES Tarde and the Infinitesimal Sociology NOTES Individuals, Publics, and Crowds. NOTES Diffusion or War? NOTES Desire, Assemblages, Machines. NOTES The Reason for Being of the Finite NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Sergio Tonkonoff. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 141-147) And Index.