Practices of Comparing : Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice

Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human prac...

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Main Authors: Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Johannes Grave
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Published: BiUP 2020
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