Are we comparing yet? : : on standards, justice, and incomparability / / Haun Saussy.
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 everyda...
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Saussy, Haun, 1960- author. Are we comparing yet? : on standards, justice, and incomparability / Haun Saussy. 1st ed. Bielefeld, Germany 2019 Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (112) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Literaturwissenschaft 2020 English. Open access Unrestricted online access star This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript 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 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. 1\u 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. funded by Förderung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288) Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references. Comparison (Philosophy) Intercultural communication. Comparison Ethics History Eurocentrism Critique Literature Culture General Literature Studies Cultural Theory Cultural History Cultural Studies Bielefeld University Press 3-8394-4977-4 Förderung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288) funder. fnd http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd |
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