How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

by Robert P. Weller and Adam B. Seligman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190888717
• ISBN13: 9780190888718
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"