Practices of Comparing
Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a seemingly trivial practice – comparing – the subject of in-depth research.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
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Typologies and Forms
Practices of Comparing
Seiten 11 - 38 -
Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances
Seiten 39 - 86 -
Incomparability
Seiten 87 - 110 -
Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels
Seiten 111 - 136 -
Where Do Rankings Come From?
Seiten 137 - 170 -
Histories
The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England
Seiten 173 - 198 -
The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance
Seiten 199 - 212 -
Comparison and East-West Encounter
Seiten 213 - 228 -
Japan as the Absolute 'Other'
Seiten 229 - 256 -
"Goût de Comparaison"
Seiten 257 - 294 -
Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery
Seiten 295 - 328 -
The Politicisation of Comparisons
Seiten 329 - 348 -
Genealogies of Modernism
Seiten 349 - 376 -
Comparing in the Digital Age
Seiten 377 - 400 -
Authors and Editors
Seiten 401 - 406
3. Juni 2020, 406 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5166-3
Dateigröße: 11.29 MB