Selfness exorbitant
Abstract
Even within comparative law, an intellectual endeavour that is meant to showcase legal otherness and indeed the comparing self’s primordial interest for the other, there prevails the self’s refusal to accommodate difference, to yield to the uncommon: there endures the self’s persistent self-assertion. Deriving assistance from philosophical and literary discourses, this essay addresses the abiding trope of the self’s affirmation of epistemic supremacy, a feature of the comparative enterprise that must ultimately call into question its other-directedness, perhaps its most basic postulate.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Comparative and International Law Studies
Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
Legal and Social Philosophy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 219–276
- Publication date
- 10 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter