SFB 1288

We are especially pleased about two new publications of the SFB 1288: The anthology "Practices of Comparing", which goes back to the SFB's inaugural conference at the end of 2017 and is edited by Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, and Johannes Grave, has recently been published. In addition to the editors' introductory essay on the research program of the practices of comparing, it contains contributions on incomparability by Hartmut von Sass, on comparing in the digital age by Anna Maria Neubert and Silke Schwandt, and on comparisons in the East-West Encounter by Zhang Longxi.

The monograph "Sich selbst vergleichen" ('Comparing oneself') of subproject C02, written by Franz Arlinghaus, Walter Erhart, Lena Gumpert, and Simon Siemianowski, focuses on the history of autobiographical writing. From different disciplinary perspectives and from the 12th century to the present day, the authors assume that in self-descriptions the focus is not on a supposedly autonomous ego, but on a relational self that is again always placed within relations. Among others, authors such as Petrus Abaelard, Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bertha von Suttner, Walter Benjamin or Didier Eribon are analyzed.

Both publications are open access and can be downloaded from the website of the transcript publishing house–the anthology of the SFB is published by Bielefeld University Press.