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Comparing is one of the most essential practices, in our everyday life as well as in science and humanities. In this in-depth philosophical analysis of the structure, practice and ethics of comparative procedures, Hartmut von Sass expands on the significance of comparison.
Elucidating the ramified structure of comparing, von Sass suggests a typology of comparisons before introducing the notion of comparative injustice and the limits of comparisons. He elaborates on comparing as practice by relating comparing to three relative practices – orienting, describing, and expressing oneself – to unfold some of the most important chapters of what might be called comparativism.
This approach allows von Sass to clarify the idea of the incomparable, distinguish between different versions of incomparability and shed light on important ethical aspects of comparisons today. Confronting the claim that we are living in an age of comparisons, his book is an important contribution to ideas surrounding all-encompassing measurements and scalability and their critique.
Elucidating the ramified structure of comparing, von Sass suggests a typology of comparisons before introducing the notion of comparative injustice and the limits of comparisons. He elaborates on comparing as practice by relating comparing to three relative practices – orienting, describing, and expressing oneself – to unfold some of the most important chapters of what might be called comparativism.
This approach allows von Sass to clarify the idea of the incomparable, distinguish between different versions of incomparability and shed light on important ethical aspects of comparisons today. Confronting the claim that we are living in an age of comparisons, his book is an important contribution to ideas surrounding all-encompassing measurements and scalability and their critique.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Comparisons – A Marginalized Classic
- Part I Comparison as Structure and Comparing as Practice
- 1 Comparisons. A General Account
- 2 Comparisons. A Typology
- 3 On Comparative Injustice
- Part II Three Studies in Comparativism
- 4 Orientation, Indexicality and Comparisons: A Theme from Kant
- 5 Comparatively/Descriptively: Wittgenstein and the Search for ‘Objects of Comparison’
- 6 Comparative Ironism: Richard Rorty on Plural Vocabularies and the Comparisons Between Th em
- Part III On Relocating Incomparability
- 7 Against Structural Incomparability
- 8 On Indexical Incomparability
- 9 The Case of Normative Incomparability: Comparisons, Animals, and the Quest for Adequacy
- Epilogue: Living in an ‘Age of Comparison’? An Interpretation with Diagnostic Intent
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index