Practices of Comparing - Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice

Johannes Grave, Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart

ISBN 10: 3837651665 / ISBN 13: 9783837651669

Published by Transcript Verlag, DE, 2021

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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 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practices of Comparing - Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837651665
• ISBN 13: 9783837651669
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 666 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Angelika Epple ist seit 2023 die Rektorin der Universität Bielefeld und forscht, unter anderem, in der Globalgeschichte. Walter Erhart ist Professor für germanistische Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Bielefeld. Er habilitierte sich an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und promovierte an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind deutsche Literatur vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Literaturtheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Reiseliteratur sowie Gender Studies. Johannes Grave (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1976, lehrt Neuere Kunstgeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und ist Projektleiter im Sonderforschungsbereich »Praktiken des Vergleichens«. Für seine Forschungen zur Kunst um 1800, zur Frührenaissance sowie zu bildtheoretischen Fragen wurde er 2020 mit dem Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis ausgezeichnet.