{"product_id":"bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-9781942130468","title":"Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness","description":"\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860813877522,"sku":"9781942130468","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6c6b306-e8d6-41d6-b35e-1bf033c0fce1.jpg?v=1737583400","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-9781942130468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}