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Autore |
Saussy Haun <1960-> |
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Titolo |
Are we comparing yet? : on standards, justice, and incomparability / / Haun Saussy |
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Bielefeld, Germany : , : transcript Verlag, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Literaturwissenschaft 2020 |
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Disciplina |
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Comparison (Philosophy) |
Intercultural communication |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 The Problem 7 The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive 9 Reckoning with the Other 19 The Family of Comparisons 29 The Elasticity of Substitution 39 Negative Privilege 47 Birds of a Feather 63 Noli me tangere 71 Near and Far 81 A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum 91 Making Room 99 Envoi 109 Acknowledgments 111 |
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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. |
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