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It surveys the state of the field through historical and grammatical analysis, then distinguishes comparisons from analogies and metaphors while addressing their functions and limits. Further sections treat comparative injustice and illustrate comparativism through themes from Kant and Wittgenstein, ending with strategies for relocating incomparability and challenging structural forms of it.","A Philosophy of Comparisons  \nAlso available from Bloomsbury  \nComparative Philosophy without Borders, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti and Ralph Weber Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition, by Nikolay Milkov  \nEthics after Wittgenstein, edited by Richard Amesbury and Hartmut von Sass The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying, edited by Darren Hudson Hick and Reinold Schmücker  \nThe Philosophy of Being in the Analytic, Continental, and Thomistic Traditions, by Joseph P. Li Vecchi, Frank Scalambrino and David K. Kovacs  \nA Philosophy of Comparisons Theory, Practice and the Limits of Ethics  \nHartmut von Sass  \nBLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC  \nBloomsbury Publishing Plc  \n50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA  \n29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc  \nFirst published in Great Britain 2022  \nCopyright © Hartmut von Sass, 2022  \nHartmut von Sass has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. Cover image: MirageC © Getty images  \nAll rights reserved. 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The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.  \nISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-8438-1  \nePDF: 978-1-3501-8439-8  \neBook: 978-1-3501-8440-4  \nTypeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk To find out more about our authors and [books visit www.bloomsbury.com](books visit www.bloomsbury.com)[ ](books visit www.bloomsbury.com)and sign up for our newsletters.  \nIn Memoriam Prof. Minouche (2011–17)  \nv  \nvi  \nContents  \nIntroduction: Comparisons – A Marginalised Classic 1  \n1. To Begin With: A Telling Imbalance 1  \n2. Comparisons/Comparing: State of the Field 2  \n3. Comparisons: A Historical Remainder 4  \n4. Comparisons: Structure/Grammar/Limits 5  \n5. On What Follows: An Overview 6  \nPart I Comparison as Structure and Comparing as Practice 13  \n1 Comparisons. A General Account 15  \n1. Introduction: How to Approach the Topic? 15  \n2. On the Architecture of Reasonable Comparisons 18  \n2.1. Conditions and Preconditions 18  \n2.2. Comparisons as Complex Relations 19  \n2.3. Who C(omp)ares? 21  \n2.4. Comparative Relata 22  \n2.5. The tertium comparationis 24  \n2.6. Comparative Contextualism 25  \n2.7. On Reasonable Comparisons. An Annotation 28  \n3. On the Differences of Similarity 30  \n4. Two Demarcations 32  \n4.1. Comparisons and Analogies 32  \n4.2. Comparisons and Metaphors 34  \n5. Comparisons and their Functions 39  \n6. Comparative Limits 41  \n2 Comparisons. A Typology 45  \n1. Introduction: Different Types – One Structure 45  \n2. A Typology 46  \n2.1. Simple/Complex 46  \n2.2. Result-Oriented/Experimental or Explorative 47  \n2.3. Stable/Emergent 48  \n2.4. Contrastive/Analogical or Similar 49  \n2.5. Diachronic/Synchronic 50  \nviii Contents  \n2.6. Genetic/Typological 51  \n2.7. Impartial or Pure/Asymmetrical 52  \n3. Coda: On Pointed Comparisons 55  \n3 On Comparative Injustice 59  \n1. Introduction 59  \n2. Injustice, Comparatively 60  \n2.1. Comparative Injustice – Typologically Considered 60  \n2.2. The Will to Compare. On Comparative Philosophy 63  \n2.3. Peter Winch on Understanding an Alien Culture 66  \nPart II Three Studies in Comparativism 71  \n4 Orientation, Index","cbCaigr3lJltrJhr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigr3lJltrJhr","pdf",2590479,3,1,265,"English","en",105,"# Introduction: Comparisons – A Marginalised Classic\n# Part I Comparison as Structure and Comparing as Practice\n## Comparisons. A General Account\n## Comparisons. 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