Sly Proximities

Similarity and Modernity
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-94566-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Transdisciplinary Souths

This volume is an overview of the history and theory of the concept of similarity. It argues that the concept of similarity offers a new, alternative approach in culture studies, as compared to the hitherto dominant paradigm of difference. The volume explores the theoretical range of the concept of similarity in historical and systematic terms and its relation to ideas like mimesis, analogy, assimilation, mimicry and imitation. It also studies important and exemplary interpretations of similarity in literature, anthropology, philosophy and cultural studies.

Prescient and interdisciplinary, the volume will be a handy guide to scholars and researchers of cultural theory, literature, philosophy and politics.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kimmich, Dorothee

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I; 1. Why Similarity?, 2. Who’s Afraid of Similarity?, 3. Can Similarity Be Modern?, 4. Where to Find the Friends of Similarity?; Part II; 5. The ‘Appalling’ Similarity of the Stranger: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 6. A Travelling Form of Knowledge: Experiencing Proximities and Comparing Similarities: Bronislaw Malinowski, Fritz Kramer, Marcel Mauss, 7. Colourful Webs Instead of Red Lines: Family Resemblances in Ludwig Wittgenstein and James G. Frazer, 8. Magical Similarities: Sigmund Freud and Aby Warburg, 9. Mimetic Resemblance: Charles Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, 10. A Short Excursus on the Fetish: The Similarity of the Very Other, 11. Tapirs and Their People: Epistemologies of Proximity and Similarity

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothee Kimmich is a Professor for German and Cultural Theory Current at University of Tübingen, Germany.