Masses, class and the power of suggestion

Andrea Cavalletti ~ RP 2.07 (Spring 2020), pp. 041–052 ~ Article

1. I will attempt here to reflect on three major themes, ‘masses, class, suggestion’, with the hope that, by doing so, I will also indirectly bring to light the relevance of Gabriel Tarde’s thought today. One may wonder why my title does not include – perhaps in place of the term ‘class’, which is not […]

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Dossier: From structure to rhizome: transdisciplinarity in French thought (1)

Andrew Barry ~ RP 165 (Jan/Feb 2011), pp. 35–40 ~ Article

In an article first published in July 1968 in New Left Review, Perry Anderson gave an analysis of a critical weakness of British intellectual culture. His diagnosis is remarkable and surprising. One of the key problems, Anderson argued, was that Britain has failed to make any contribution to the classical sociological tradition; moreover, this failure […]