Book contents
- Negative Comparative Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 167
- Negative Comparative Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Discontents
- I Raising My Game – To Fail Better
- II Sniffing the Wind
- III Onomastics, Very Briefly
- IV More Comparative Law
- V Borges’s Challenge
- VI Outings
- VII For Indiscipline
- VIII Decoloniality
- IX The Same as the Different
- X Comparatism Is Culturalism
- XI This Comparatist, Even
- XII The Negative
- XIII The Negative, Applied
- XIV My Equipment
- XV Appreciation
- Supplement
- Index of Matters
- Index of Names
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
III - Onomastics, Very Briefly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- Negative Comparative Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 167
- Negative Comparative Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Discontents
- I Raising My Game – To Fail Better
- II Sniffing the Wind
- III Onomastics, Very Briefly
- IV More Comparative Law
- V Borges’s Challenge
- VI Outings
- VII For Indiscipline
- VIII Decoloniality
- IX The Same as the Different
- X Comparatism Is Culturalism
- XI This Comparatist, Even
- XII The Negative
- XIII The Negative, Applied
- XIV My Equipment
- XV Appreciation
- Supplement
- Index of Matters
- Index of Names
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
This fragment’s argument is that the designation ‘comparative law’, while epistemologically impoverished, must ultimately be retained for pragmatic reasons. Yet, it must be invested with an alternative meaning.
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- Negative Comparative LawA Strong Programme for Weak Thought, pp. 104 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022