Research Catalog

Title

Similarity : a paradigm for culture theory / edited by Anil Bhatti and Dorothee Kimmich ; with the assistance of Sara Bangert.

Publication

• [New Delhi, India] : Tulika Books, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Bhatti, Anil,
• Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung. associated name.
• Kimmich, Dorothee, 1961-
• Universität Konstanz. Exzellenzcluster "Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration", supporting host.
• Universität Tübingen, supporting host.

Description

xiv, 357 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Papers presented in three conferences, supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Excellence Cluster 16: 'Cultural Foundation of Integration' at the University of Konstanz, and the Institute of German Studies and the Forum Scientairum at the Univesity of Tubingen.

Uniform Title

Ähnlichkeit. English.

Subject

• Ähnlichkeit
• Civilization
• Culture > Study and teaching
• Identity (Philosophical concept) > Congresses
• Kulturelle Identität
• Kulturtheorie
• Kulturwissenschaften
• Resemblance (Philosophy) > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "This volume presents the English versions of papers first published in German, under the title Ähnlichkeit, in 2015"--Page ix.
• Translated from German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction / Dorothee Kimmich -- THEORY -- Similarity: Valences of a post-colonial concept / Albrecht Koschorke -- On the Humanism of Similarity / Jan Assmann -- Work of Similarities / Work on Similarities: In the work of Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin / Ulrike Kistner -- Similarity-Divergence-Convergence: For a historiography of relational processes / Jurgen Osterhammel -- Resemblance: Functions and fields of a controversial concept / Klaus Sachs-Hombach -- Similarity as a Concept within Difference Theory: A reformulation of modernization theory / Andreas Langenohl -- The Locale of Comparison and Transnationality: Towards comparative humanities / Naoki Sakai -- Beyond Difference and Complete Identity: Bringing in similarities / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Similarity, Assimilation, Integration: In between hybridity and grafting / Uwe Wirth -- CASE STUDIES -- Similarity as Performance: A new approach to identity construction and empathy regimes / Aleida Assmann -- Places of Similarity: Literary negotiations in bourgeois realism / Dorothee Kimmich -- Assimilation and Circulation: A nineteenth-century universalistic model of knowledge / Andreas Kilcher -- Difference in Similarity: On a mode of aesthetic comparison in Hofmannsthal, Trakl, Novalis and Thomas Mann / Rudiger Gorner -- Kakanian Melange: Habsburg Central Europe and the shift from the study of identity to the study of similarity / Johannes Feichtinger -- The Similarity and Difference of Religion(s): 1750 -- 1850 / Rudolf Schlogl -- Comparison and Classification in Religious Studies: Indigenous discourses as case study / Johan Strijdom -- Navigating Identities, Similarities and Differences: An anthropological comparison / Thomas G. Kirsch -- Chains of Similarity and Struggles for Hegemony: The Turkish Republic at a turning point / Levent Tezcan -- The Similar Yields Divergence: Global notions of `social welfare' and the making of `informality' in twentieth-century India / Ravi Ahuja.

ISBN

• 9789382381969
• 9382381961

LCCN

2017354311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library