Regimes of Comparatism
Abstract
Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference.
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Renaud Gagné, Simon D. Goldhill, Geoffrey Lloyd (2018). Regimes of Comparatism. BRILL eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387638
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title = {Regimes of Comparatism},
author = {Gagné, Renaud and Goldhill, Simon D. and Lloyd, Geoffrey},
year = {2018},
publisher = {BRILL eBooks},
doi = {10.1163/9789004387638}
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