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 pictur...(展开全部)

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 pictur...(展开全部)

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 pictur...(展开全部)

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 pictur...(展开全部)

塔尔德(Gabriel Tarde，1843-1904）是西方社会知名的心理学家、统计学家和犯罪学家，他从哲学的角度分析刑法在西方刑法学界独树一帜。 塔尔德1843年3月12日出生于法国多尔多涅（Dordorgne）省的萨尔拉（Sarlat），就学于一天主教学校，在那里学习的哲学和古典文学为其后来的研究方向奠定了基础，后来，塔尔德到巴黎学习法律，1869年他在家乡开始了其地方法官的生涯，直到1894年回到巴黎被任命为司法部统计局局长，1900年塔尔德担任了法兰西学院教授，成为了一名政治学教授，1904年塔尔德法官逝世于巴黎。 作为一名心理学家和哲学家，塔尔德在当法官期内对其审理的刑事案件中所反映的社会问题很感兴趣，1880年他在《哲学杂志》上写出了一系列批判龙勃罗梭（Lombroso）理论的文章，令人信服地批判了龙勃罗梭的天生犯罪论。 塔尔德在其第一...(展开全部)

Lambert Zuidervaart examines what is living and what is dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno, the most important philosopher and social critic in Germany after World War II. When he died in 1969, Adorno's successors abandoned his critical-utopian passions. Habermas in particular, rejected or ignored Adorno's central insights on the negative effects of capitalism a...(展开全部)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of ordinary life. From voice assistants like Siri to natural language processors, AI technologies use cultural biases and modern...(展开全部)

An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture―that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around...(展开全部)