Are We Comparing Yet? – On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-08
Mått135 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt666 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBiUP General
Antal sidor112
FörlagTranscript Verlag
ISBN9783837649772

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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.