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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : transcript Verlag,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literaturwissenschaft 2020
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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