Are We Comparing Yet?
On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-3-8376-4977-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Publishing group
transcript
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-4977-2 (9783837649772)
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Person
Haun Saussy, born in 1960, is University Professor at the University of Chicago, where his courses range among classical Chinese literature, comparative poetics, translation, and the history of knowledge. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1993), Great Walls of Discourse (2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm (2016), and Translation as Citation (2018) for which he received the American Comparative Literature Association's Wellek Prize in 2018.
Content
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.