TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saussy,Haun
TI  - Are We Comparing Yet?: On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability 
SN  - 9783839449776
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - Bielefeld University Press, 
KW  - Bielefeld University Press
KW  - Critique
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Cultural Theory
KW  - Culture
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Eurocentrism
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - History
KW  - Literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Problem --; The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive --; Reckoning with the Other --; The Family of Comparisons --; The Elasticity of Substitution --; Negative Privilege --; Birds of a Feather --; Noli me tangere --; Near and Far --; A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum --; Making Room --; Envoi --; Acknowledgments; Open Access
N2  - Debates about the possibility of an open culture - or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture - often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons.Through a series of case studies in everyday and academic comparison (literature, history, politics, philosophy), Haun Saussy calls out the typical vices of comparison and proposes ways to unseat them. For however much it is abused, distorted, and manipulated, comparison retains an essential link to the idea of justice
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839449776
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