How things count as the same

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What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that different ways of constructing sameness foster different group dynamics and different benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies.



In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the heart of the problems of pluralism that increasingly face so much of the world today. Note that "counting as" the same differs from "being" the same. Counting as the same is not an empirical question about how much or how little one person shares with another or one event shares with a previous event. Nothing is actually the same. That is why, as humans, we construct sameness all the time. In the process, of course, we also construct difference. Creating sameness and difference leaves us with the perennial problem of how to live with difference instead of seeing it as a threat. How Things Count as the Same suggests that there are multiple ways in which we can count things as the same, and that each of them fosters different kinds of group dynamics and different sets of benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies. While there might be many ways to understand how people construct sameness, three stand out as especially important and form the focus of the book's analysis: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 december 2018

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Adam B. Seligman

Tweede Auteur: Robert P. Weller

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press Inc

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 236 mm

Product hoogte: 25 mm

Product lengte: 160 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 236 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 160 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 522 g

EAN: 9780190888718

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