Infinity and social theory: Tarde as Leibniz’s reader
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Gabriel Tarde; Social Theory; Infinite; Infinitesimals; Leibniz.Abstract
The text analyzes the fundamental principles around which Gabriel Tarde builds his approach to social life. This perspective, elaborated towards the end of the 19th century, is remarkably displaced with respect to both the holisms and the individualisms that dominated the social sciences and the humanities during the following century. One of the main reasons for this is that his philosophical starting point was not Kant, Hegel or Marx, but Leibniz. Tarde elaborates a (neo) monadological social theory. That is, he produces an infinitist conception of the social articulated around an ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimals and their associated concepts. This is what the paper intends to show.
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