Are we comparing yet? on standards, justice, and incomparability

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 everyda...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Förderung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288) funder (funder)
Other Authors: Saussy, Haun, 1960- author (author)
Format: Electronic
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2019
Bielefeld, Germany : [2019]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Literaturwissenschaft 2020
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433347306719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 The Problem 7 The Unique, the Comparative and the Competitive 9 Reckoning with the Other 19 The Family of Comparisons 29 The Elasticity of Substitution 39 Negative Privilege 47 Birds of a Feather 63 Noli me tangere 71 Near and Far 81 A Museum Without Walls for Walls Without a Museum 91 Making Room 99 Envoi 109 Acknowledgments 111