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4 San Diego Int'l L.J. 57 (2003)
Meditating Comparisons, or the Question of Comparative Law

handle is hein.journals/sdintl4 and id is 67 raw text is: Meditating Comparisons, or the Question of Comparative Law IGOR STRAMIGNONI* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. A BSTRACT ......................................................................................................... 58 II. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 58 A. Nation States, Democracy, and the Law .............................................. 58 III. POETIC COM PARISONS ....................................................................................... 61 A . Intim ations ............................................................................................. 6 1 B . Thresholds ............................................................................................. 65 IV. THE LANGUAGE OF COMPARISONS .................................................................... 67 A. The Paradox of Language .................................................................... 67 B. Language Inter Alia . ....................................................................... 70 C. P ointing ............................................................................................... 72 V . M EDITATING COMPARISONS .............................................................................. 76 A. Thinkers and Poets, and the Comparatist Poet ..................................... 76 B. M editating D ifference ........................................................................... 79 C. Difference as Difference ....................................................................... 84 V I. C ONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................... 88 A. The How of Comparative Law ......................................................... 88 * London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law. I would like to thank those who have generously accepted to read an earlier draft of this paper and who have kindly shared with me their thoughts about it-especially Gunther Frankenberg, Patrick Glenn, Tim Murphy, and Geoffrey Samuel. I would also like to thank Lupo for helping me with the rendering in English of Martin Heidegger's Der Leuchter. Finally, very many thanks go to Dylan Malagrino, Editor-in-Chief of the San Diego International Law Journal, Brigid Bennett, and the whole staff for the real enthusiasm with which they have accepted this paper, as well as for their outstanding efficiency in producing it. Any mistake or other fallacy thereof are mine alone.