{"product_id":"bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-hardcover","title":"Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul North\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and art\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an owl's face, a scholar flying from book to book. The most disparate things approach one another in a butterfly, the sort of dense nodule of likeness that Roger Caillois once proposed calling a \"bizarre-privileged item.\" In response, critical theorist Paul North proposes a spiritual exercise: imagine a universe made up solely of likenesses. There are no things, only traits acting according to the law of series, here and there a thick overlap that appears \"bizarre.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCenturies of thought have fixated on the concept of difference. This book offers a theory that begins from likeness, where, at any instant, a vast array of series proliferates and remote regions come into contact. \u003ci\u003eBizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e follows likenesses as they traverse physics and the physical universe; evolution and evolutionary theory; psychology and the psyche; sociality, language, and art. Divergent sources from an eccentric history help give shape to a new trans-science, \"homeotics.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul North\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of German at Yale University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Problem of Distraction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768371118368,"sku":"9781942130468","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/27c2946ba54e2e920ab594981bd09cc5.webp?v=1780328082","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}