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Are We Comparing Yet? On Standards, Justice, and Incomparability
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Abstract 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... mehr
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), the author 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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Eurozentrismus; Gerechtigkeit; Kultur; Vergleich
Klassifikation
sonstige Geisteswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Ethics; History; Critique; General Literature Studies; Cultural Theory; Cultural History; Cultural Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Verlag
Bielefeld University Press
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
112 S.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839449776
ISBN
978-3-8394-4977-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0