Saussy,Are Comparing Yet?*

Haun Saussy

ISBN 10: 3837649776 / ISBN 13: 9783837649772

Verlag: Transcript /Biup/Mdwpress, 2019

Beschreibung

Neu Neuware, verlagsfrisch; new item Besorgungsartikel, mit längerer Auslieferungszeit. -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. 112 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers INF1100615711

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Saussy,Are Comparing Yet?*
• Verlag: Transcript /Biup/Mdwpress
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3837649776
• ISBN-13: 9783837649772
• Einband: 25
• Zustand: Gebraucht
• Abmessungen: 224B x 187 H x 8 T Millimeter Breite: 224 mm, Höhe: 187 mm, Tiefe: 8 mm
• Gewicht: 172 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Haun Saussy, born in 1960, is University Professor at the University of Chicago, where his courses range among classical Chinese literature, comparative poetics, translation, and the history of knowledge. His books include The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1993), Great Walls of Discourse (2001), The Ethnography of Rhythm (2016), and Translation as Citation (2018) for which he received the American Comparative Literature Association's Wellek Prize in 2018.