为了回应全球化现象，比较主义应该生成一套有关文学价值与普适性的概念。对比较文学学科的论辩式梳理显示，二战后的文学理论已危及大学中各学科间的界限；基于这一原因，此学科一直受到冷战人文主义所规约，而这又是基于阿诺德式的“世界”概念。比较主义应该制约而非采用这类概念，其理应承担的任务要包括：生产差异、守卫不可转译性、收复该学科与理论哲学的关系；简言之，比较主义应该拆解文学价值的一统化概念。

Comparativism, this essay argues, should respond to the phenomenon of globalization by producing a critique of the concepts of literary value and universality. A polemical genealogy of the discipline of Comparative Literature shows "literary theory" in the post-war period to have emerged as a threat to disciplinary boundaries in the university, and for this reason to have always been regulated by a Cold-War humanism grounded in an Arnoldian belief in concepts like "the world." Comparativism should militate against such concepts rather than adopt them; it should take up the tasks of producing difference, of guarding untranslatability, of recapturing the discipline’s relation to speculative philosophy — in short, of unbuilding a unitary conception of literary value.