Edaphos and Episteme of Comparative Literature
Edaphos and Episteme of Comparative Literature

Summary/Abstract: "The fact that comparative literary studies, against their very nature, have moved in recent decades towards fragmentation and particularization, has increasingly become a point of concern among comparatists themselves (cf. e. g. Kawamoto 2001: 5–13, Gillespie 2003: 10–17). The main postmodern trends in cultural studies, coming since the 1970s predominantly from France (Derrida, Foucault, Bourdieu) and having their powerful repercussion in the US, with a fully institutionalized deconstruction as one of the basic segments of postmodern episteme, have despite their novelty and attractiveness revealed little capacity for overcoming the tendency of particularization [...]"

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