Are We Comparing Yet?

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Are We Comparing Yet? is written by Haun Saussy and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839449774 (ISBN 10) and 9783839449776 (ISBN 13).

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.