Practices of Comparing : Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice /

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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 prac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Epple, Angelika (Editor ), Erhart, Walter (Editor ), Grave, Johannes (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Digital humanities.
Literature.
Political sociology.
Literature
Bielefeld University Press.
Comparing.
Comparison.
Cultural History.
Digital Humanities.
Historical Change.
Literary Studies.
Political Sociology.
Society.
Sociology of Knowledge.
Theory.
Sciences humaines numériques.
Littérature.
Sociologie politique.
digital humanities.
HISTORY / Social History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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