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

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.

• The Problem; The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive; Reckoning with the Other; The Family of Comparisons; The Elasticity of Substitution; Negative Privilege; Birds of a Feather; Noli me tangere; Near and Far; A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum; Making Room; Envoi; Acknowledgments.