04361oam 2200889 c 450 991041191990332120260102090118.09783839451663383945166310.17302/9783839451663(CKB)4100000011249106(DE-B1597)544757(DE-B1597)9783839451663(OCoLC)1163878150(Bielefeld University Press)9783839451663(MiAaPQ)EBC6956165(Au-PeEL)EBL6956165(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28410(ScCtBLL)c2c39179-9647-44c7-a28c-f4f95cea93d1(Perlego)1564442(oapen)doab28410(EXLCZ)99410000001124910620260102d2020 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPractices of ComparingTowards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human PracticeAngelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Johannes Grave1st ed.BielefeldBielefeld University Press20201 online resource (406 p.)BiUP General9783837651669 3837651665 Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Practices of Comparing 11 Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances 39 Incomparability 87 Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels 111 Where Do Rankings Come From? 137 The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England 173 The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance 199 Comparison and East-West Encounter 213 Japan as the Absolute 'Other' 229 "Goût de Comparaison" 257 Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery 295 The Politicisation of Comparisons 329 Genealogies of Modernism 349 Comparing in the Digital Age 377 Authors and Editors 401Practices 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.Besprochen in:https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de, 24.07.2020Epple et al. (eds.), Practices of ComparingTowards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human PracticePracticesTheoryComparingComparisonHistorical ChangeDigital HumanitiesSocietyCultural HistoryLiteratureLiterary StudiesPolitical SociologySociology of KnowledgeBielefeld University PressPracticesTheoryComparingComparisonHistorical ChangeDigital HumanitiesSocietyCultural HistoryLiteratureLiterary StudiesPolitical SociologySociology of KnowledgeBielefeld University Press304.2Epple Angelika<p>Angelika Epple, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland</p>edtErhart Walter<p>Walter Erhart, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland</p>edtGrave Johannes<p>Johannes Grave, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Deutschland</p>edtDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288)fndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910411919903321Practices of Comparing2033743UNINA