Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology: The Infinitesimal Revolution

Tonkonoff, Sergio

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-08-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319551487

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55149-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 154