Similarity A Paradigm for culture theory

Similarity A Paradigm for culture theory Edited by ANIL BHATTI and DOROTHEE KIMMICH with the assistance of SARA BANGERT Tulika Books Contents Preface to the English Edition ANIL BHATTI and DOROTHEE KIMMICH ix Introduction ANIL BHATTI and DOROTHEE KIMMICH Translated by Alan Fortuna 1 THEORY Similarity: Valences of a post-colonial concept ALBRECHT KOSCHORKE Translated by Alan Fortuna 25 On the Humanism of Similarity JAN ASSMANN Translated by Alan Fortuna 35 Work of Similarities / Work on Similarities: In the work of Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin ULRIKE KISTNER 48 Similarity–Divergence–Convergence: For a historiography of relational processes JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL Translated by Alan Fortuna 61 Resemblance: Functions and fields of a controversial concept KLAUS SACHS-HOMBACH Translated by Alan Fortuna 77 CONTENTS vi Similarity as a Concept within Difference Theory: A reformulation of modernization theory ANDREAS LANGENOHL Translated by Alan Fortuna 88 The Locale of Comparison and Transnationality: Towards comparative humanities NAOKI SAKAI 109 Beyond Difference and Complete Identity: Bringing in similarities GURPREET MAHAJAN 134 Similarity, Assimilation, Integration: In between hybridity and grafting UWE WIRTH Translated by Alan Fortuna 145 CASE STUDIES Similarity as Performance: A new approach to identity construction and empathy regimes ALEIDA ASSMANN Translated by Claire Bacher and Alan Fortuna 159 Places of Similarity: Literary negotiations in bourgeois realism DOROTHEE KIMMICH Translated by Alan Fortuna 178 Assimilation and Circulation: A nineteenth-century universalistic model of knowledge ANDREAS KILCHER Translated by Mike Zuber 192 Difference in Similarity: On a mode of aesthetic comparison in Hofmannsthal, Trakl, Novalis and Thomas Mann RÜDIGER GÖRNER Translated by Alan Fortuna 210 Contents vii Kakanian Mélange: Habsburg Central Europe and the shift from the study of identity to the study of similarity JOHANNES FEICHTINGER Translated by Joanna White 225 The Similarity and Difference of Religion(s): 1750–1850 RUDOLF SCHLÖGL Translated by Alan Fortuna 246 Comparison and Classification in Religious Studies: Indigenous discourses as case study JOHAN STRIJDOM 255 Navigating Identities, Similarities and Differences: An anthropological comparison THOMAS G. KIRSCH Translated by Allison Brown 273 Chains of Similarity and Struggles for Hegemony: The Turkish Republic at a turning point LEVENT TEZCAN 299 The Similar Yields Divergence: Global notions of ‘social welfare’ and the making of ‘informality’ in twentieth-century India RAVI AHUJA 311 Select Bibliography 335 Notes on Contributors 352