Practices of Comparing : Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice / Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Johannes Grave

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : Bielefeld University Press, 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Practices; Theory; Comparing; Comparison; Historical Change; Digital Humanities; Society; Cultural History; Literature; Literary Studies; Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge; Bielefeld University Press
• Persona (resp. second.): EppleAngelika <p>Angelika Epple, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland </p>; ErhartWalter <p>Walter Erhart, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland </p>; GraveJohannes <p>Johannes Grave, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Deutschland </p>
• Nota di contenuto: 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 401
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.; Besprochen in:https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de, 24.07.2020
• Altri titoli varianti: Epple et al. (eds.), Practices of Comparing Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
• Titolo autorizzato: Practices of Comparing
• ISBN: 9783839451663; 3839451663
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910411919903321
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