"Comparing the Incomparable was originally published in French in 2000 under the title Comparer l'incomparable 2000, Éditions du Seuil"--T.p. verso.
Toward a constructive comparativism: between historians and anthropologists
Should an anthropologist happen to meet a historian
'A traveller everywhere'
The confrontation between Greeks and Americans
The blemishes of nationalism
Those 'without writing', 'without history'
Saint Marc Bloch
How should the history of England be written today?
And in Germany?
Toward a more just and egalitarian society of historians
Working together
Constructing comparables
Singular and plural
The shock of the incomparable
The art of coining something new
Mechanisms of thought
Passing from autochthony to refoundation
What is the use of comparison?
Setting a variety of regimes of hisroicity in perspective
'Be wary of history'
Historical memory and thought
The configurations of change
The colours of the past
An obstacle to thinking of the past as something other than the present: Homer
Working on one's own traditions
Experimenting in the field of polytheisms
'The fact of structure', with Georges Dumézil
Models of Zeus
The limits to 'how a god intervenes'
Begin with groupings of gods
Concrete objects used as 'litmus papers'
The foot of Apollo, the strides of Hermes and the foundation stones of Poseidon
In the intimacy of the house of Delphi
Manipulate! Obtain reactions!
From assembly practices to forms of politics: a comparative approach
Multiple beginnings
Concrete practices
Communal affairs
Fashioning a place in which to speak
A democracy invented in Africa
Assembling and giving form to the res publica
Notaries, scribes and messengers: modes of publicity
Writing down the law and making it speak
Places of equality and types of men.
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Comparing the incomparable by Marcel Detienne. ISBN 9780804757508. Published by Stanford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
