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Comparing the Incomparable (Paperback)
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Comparing the Incomparable (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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In "Comparing the Incomparable," Marcel Detienne challenges the
cordoning off of disciplines that prevent us from asking
trans-cultural questions that would permit one society to shed
light on another. Some years ago, he undertook the study of
"construction sites" grouped around general questions to be put to
historians and ethnologists about their particular areas of
expertise. Four of these comparative experiments are presented in
the chapters of this book. The first concerns myths and practices
related to the founding of cities or sacred spaces from Africa to
Japan to Ancient Greece. The second looks at "regimes of
historicity" and asks why we speak of history and what we mean by
it, which leads to a comparison of cultural philosophies and of the
ways different cultures express themselves, be they oral, written,
or visual. The third chapter, following in the footsteps of
comparative philologist Georges Dumezil, turns to polytheistic
pantheons, arguing that we should not only look at the gods in and
of themselves but also at the relations between them. The final
section of the book examines how, from Ancient Greek democracy to
the Ochollo of Ethiopia to the French Revolution, peoples form a
consciousness of themselves that translates into assembly
practices. A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against
the dangers of incommensurability, Detienne argues for and engages
in the constructive comparison of societies of a great temporal and
spatial diversity. The result testifies to what new and
illuminating insights his comparatist method can produce.
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