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Are We Comparing Yet?
Author: Haun Saussy
Year: 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 452 KB
Language: English

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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