قوانين المحاكاة (Les Lois de l’imitation)

مقدمة

“Les Lois de l’imitation” appeared in Paris in 1890 and drew on articles that Tarde had published in the Revue philosophique during the 1880s. It argues that all resemblance in the social world comes from imitation, as resemblance in nature comes from vibration and heredity: inventions – new ideas, techniques, words, fashions – spread from their point of origin in widening circles, from one mind to another, until they meet obstacles or rival inventions. Tarde distinguished logical from extra-logical laws of imitation, among them that imitation proceeds from the inner to the outer, ideas before their expressions, and from superiors to inferiors. Durkheim rejected the explanation of social facts by imitation in “The Rules of Sociological Method” (1895) and “Suicide” (1897). An English translation appeared in 1903; Deleuze and Latour later returned to the book.

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• 1893المونادولوجيا وعلم الاجتماع (Monadologie et sociologie)