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A Philosophy of Comparisons: Theory, Practice and the Limits of Ethics

Autor Dr Hartmut von Sass
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2023
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350185517
ISBN-10: 1350185515
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The first systematic study of the structure, practice and ethics of comparison

Notă biografică

Hartmut von Sass is Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion and Heisenberg Scholar at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction: Comparisons-A Marginalised ClassicPart I: Comparison as Structure and Comparing as Practice1. Comparisons. A General Account2. Comparisons: A Typology 3. On Comparative InjusticePart II: Three Studies in Comparativism4. Orientation, Indexicality, and Comparisons: A Theme from Kant5. Comparative / Descriptive: Wittgenstein and the Search for "Objects of Comparison"6. Comparative Ironism: Richard Rorty on Plural Vocabularies and the Comparisons Between ThemPart III: On Relocating Incomparability7. Against Structural Incomparability8. On Indexical Incomparability9. The Curious Case of Normative Incomparability: Comparisons, Animals and the Quest for AdequacyEpilogue: Living in an "Age of Comparison"?: An Interpretation with Diagnostic IntentNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This carefully argued and clearly written book is the most thorough study of the meaning and practice of comparing that I am aware of. It draws impressively in a wide range of philosophical literature and traditions as it explains the many roles of making comparisons in our thought and in our culture.'