Bibliograph

How things count as the same, memory, mimesis, and metaphor, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller

Type

Label

How things count as the same, memory, mimesis, and metaphor, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How things count as the same

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1035808951

Responsibility statement

Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller

Sub title

memory, mimesis, and metaphor

Summary

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'. --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note:, 1., What Counts as the Same?, 2., How Memory Counts as the Same, 3., Mimesis, or "Society Is Imitation", 4., Metaphor, 5., Framing Gifts, 6., Memory, Metaphor, and a Double Bind, 7., Sign, Ground, and Interpretant

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