Practices of Comparing. Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice. 2020
Inhalt
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Typologies and Forms
- Practices of Comparing
- Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances
- Incomparability
- Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels
- Where Do Rankings Come From?
- Histories
- 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