Format:
1 Online-Ressource (402 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9783839451663
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Practices of Comparing -- Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances -- Incomparability -- Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels -- Where Do Rankings Come From? -- The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England -- The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance -- Comparison and East-West Encounter -- Japan as the Absolute ‘Other’ -- “Goût de Comparaison” -- Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery -- The Politicisation of Comparisons -- Genealogies of Modernism -- Comparing in the Digital Age -- Authors and Editors
Content:
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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837651669
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Practices of comparing Bielefeld : transcript, 2020 ISBN 9783837651669
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783837651669
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783839451663
DOI:
10.17302/9783839451663
DOI:
10.14361/9783839451663
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Author information:
Grave, Johannes 1976-
Author information:
Erhart, Walter 1959-
Author information:
Epple, Angelika 1966-
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