Sly Proximities

Similarity and Modernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransdisciplinary Souths
Antal sidor104
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032945552

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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: Bronisław 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