Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and with Comparison

by Bruce Lincoln

Book Overview

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished scholar of religion Bruce Lincoln argues in Apples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022656407X
• ISBN13: 9780226564074
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"