Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness by North, Paul
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness by North, Paul

Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness

An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution...
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Author: Paul North
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Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness by North, Paul

Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness

$70.39
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness by North, Paul

Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness

$70.39
Author: Paul North
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and art

A 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."

Centuries 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. Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe 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."

Author: Paul North
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781942130468

About the Author
Paul North is Professor of German at Yale University. He is the author of The Problem of Distraction and The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation.
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