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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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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.

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      Publisher: Transcript Verlag
      Publication Date: 08/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9783837649772, 978-3837649772
      ISBN10: 3837649776
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literature: history and criticism Social and cultural history Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of 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.

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