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1 online resource (112 pages) |
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019). |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Literature.
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Literature |
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Littérature.
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Literary studies: general.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Culture
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Literature
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| Indexed Term |
Bielefeld University Press. |
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Critique. |
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Cultural History. |
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Cultural Studies. |
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Cultural Theory. |
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Culture. |
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Ethics. |
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Eurocentrism. |
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General Literature Studies. |
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History. |
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Literature. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 3839449774 |
| ISBN |
9783839449776 |
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3839449774 |
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3837649776 |
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9783837649772 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839449776 doi |
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UKMGB 019578024 |
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