Are We Comparing Yet?
On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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The Problem
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The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive
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Reckoning with the Other
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The Family of Comparisons
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The Elasticity of Substitution
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Negative Privilege
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Birds of a Feather
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Noli me tangere
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Near and Far
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A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum
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Making Room
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Envoi
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Acknowledgments
Seiten 111 - 112
27 September 2019, 112 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4977-6
File size: 0.58 MB