Joris Corin Heyder
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It takes into account related activities, such as measuring and classifying, modeling, establishing norms and categories, as well as organizing and popularizing...
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists.This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of...
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
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 practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Faithfulness as a genuine quality of copies
Im wechselseitigen Gefüge von Original und Kopie setzt das vorliegende Buch den Schwerpunkt auf die Kopie: Von der mittelalterlichen Abschrift bis zur autorisierten Kultbildkopie, von der Kopienpraxis der fürstlichen Sammlungen bis zur Reproduktionsfotografie wird die vielfältig artikulierte Gerichtetheit von Kopien auf ihr Vorbild in den Fokus genommen und auf ihre spezifischen ästhetischen wie medialen...