The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments (Routledge Advances in Sociology 2nd edition)
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The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments (Routledge Advances in Sociology 2nd edition)
The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments (Routledge Advances in Sociology 2nd edition)

The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments (Routledge Advances in Sociology 2nd edition)

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Matei Candea (Contributor)  

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Gabriel 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, Tarde's 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. 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 'every thing 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. This second edition has been expanded to include, alongside the original chapters, two key essays by Gabriel Tarde himself - Monadology and Sociology and The Two Elements of Sociology, as well as a significantly revised and extended introduction by the editor. 9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Matei Candea is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Corsican Fragments: Difference, Knowledge and Fieldwork (Indiana UP, 2010) and a number of articles on anthropological method and theory, the ethnography of politics and the anthropology of science. His current research focuses on the interplay of engagement and detachment in everyday relations between behavioural biologists and the meerkats they study. See www.mateicandea.net.
  • Contributor: Matei Candea
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138119550
  • Number of Pages: 348
  • Packaged Dimensions: 174x246mm
  • Packaged Weight: 612
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2015-12-08
  • Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Matei Candea is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Corsican Fragments: Difference, Knowledge and Fieldwork (Indiana UP, 2010) and a number of articles on anthropological method and theory, the ethnography of politics and the anthropology of science. His current research focuses on the interplay of engagement and detachment in everyday relations between behavioural biologists and the meerkats they study. See www.mateicandea.net.

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