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1 online resource (406 pages) |
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text file PDF |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Practices of Comparing -- Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances -- Incomparability -- Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels -- Where Do Rankings Come From? -- Weight of Comparing in Medieval England -- 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 -- Politicisation of Comparisons -- Genealogies of Modernism -- Comparing in the Digital Age -- Authors and Editors |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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In English. |
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Digital humanities.
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Digital humanities. |
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Literature.
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Literature. |
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Political sociology.
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digital humanities. |
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Political sociology. |
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HISTORY / Social History. |
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Epple, Angelika, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
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Erhart, Walter, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
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Grave, Johannes, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
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| ISBN |
9783839451663 |
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3839451663 |
| Standard No. |
10.17302/9783839451663 |
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