CONTENTS: Preface, SECTION 1: * Beyond Difference and Identity: Goethe and the Place of Similarity in Culture Theory-Anil Bhatti, * Similarity vs Difference: Interview with and Bhatti-Ketan Bhatti, Transcribed and translated by Parnal Chirmuley, SECTION 2: * New Perspectives on Similarity and Culture Theory-Dorothee Kimmich, * Indian Multiculturalism: Through the Lens of Similarity-Gurpreet Mahajan, * Between Camouflage and Cannibalism: Suzanne Cesaire's Poetics of Ambiguous Similarity-Andrea Allerkamp, * Walter Benjamin's The Task of the Translators: Contemplating Theoretical Contours of Similarity-Abhay Kumar Mishra, 'also-/almost-: Thinking Similarity with Surrealist Metaphor purity or Porolsity-Priya Kumari, * Alterity and Similarity in a Multispecies Family: Mahadevi Varma's Strategic Anthropomorphism-Anu Pande, SECTION 3: Reflections on World Literature in the Contemporary World-Shaswati Mazumdar, * The Worldly Self: Immersiopn and the Possibilities of Self-distancing-Nishad Patnaik, * Circulation of Knowledge of Indian Medicine and Botany in the Danish-Halle Mission in the Eighteenth Century-Rekha Kamath Rajan, * Polycolonial Indo-German Relations: An Interzonal Tribute to Anil Bhatti-Saugata Bhaduri, * Narrating German Colonial Aspirations-Madhu Sahni, * Fascism and the Recovery from Economic Crisis-Prabhat Patnaik, * The Charge of Obscenity as an Instrument of Power-Swati Acharya, * Abortion and Emotions in the German Literary and Cultural Context-Pallavi, * Anil Bhatti: Working at the Border-Andrea Allerkamp, Contributors.