TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
DA  - 2019
DO  - 10.14361/9783839449776
KW  - Comparison
KW  - Ethics
KW  - History
KW  - Eurocentrism
KW  - Critique
KW  - Literature
KW  - Culture
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - Cultural Theory
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Bielefeld University Press
LA  - eng
PY  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-8376-4977-2
TI  - Are we comparing yet? On standards, justice, and incomparability
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29410244
Y2  - 2024-12-26T19:42:37
ER  -