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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Saussy, Haun, 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Culture. Literature. Literature Littérature. Literary studies: general. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General Bielefeld University Press. Critique. Cultural History. Cultural Studies. Cultural Theory. Ethics. Eurocentrism. General Literature Studies. History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
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