Practices of Comparing

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5166-9
Verlag: Bielefeld University Pres

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Kt, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Epple, Angelika

Erhart, Walter

Grave, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Erhart, Walter
Walter Erhart is professor for German literature and literary studies at Universität Bielefeld. He received his habilitation from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and his doctorate from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His research areas are German literature from the 18th to the 21st century, literary theory, history of the humanities, travel literature, masculinity and gender studies.

Grave, Johannes
Johannes Grave, born 1976, is professor of art history at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and principal investigator at the collaborative research centre 'Practices of Comparing'. For his research on art around 1800, early renaissance painting and picture theory he has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2020. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of Bielefeld University Press.

Angelika Epple, born 1966, is vice-rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University and teaches history with a focus on the history of the 19th and 20th century. Since January 2017, she has been the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing. She has broadly published on the history of globalization/s, theory of history, and historiography.
Walter Erhart,
born 1959, teaches German literature at Bielefeld University. Since 2017, he has been vice-speaker of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing. His research focuses on German literature from the 18th to the 20th century and practices of comparing in world travel literature and in autobiographical writing.
Johannes Grave, born 1976, is professor of art history at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and principal investigator at the collaborative research centre 'Practices of Comparing'. For his research on art around 1800, early renaissance painting and picture theory he has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2020.