Introductory Note
Introductory Note

Summary/Abstract: The expanding bureaucratization of science in our days is rapidly becoming a threat for serious academic research, especially in humanities, with its particular features, differentiating it from natural and exact sciences. To a radically greater extent than the latter, humanities have as their mission to orientate the world spiritually, philosophically and ideologically. It especially concerns the field of Comparative Literature, which since its emergence has had to develop between the Scylla of particularism and the Charybdis of universalism. For instance, if we should publish Interlitteraria only in the Estonian language, however excellent the contributions to the field by our Estonian literary scholars are, we clearly would remain absolutely isolated from the rest of the world and, thus, unable to take part in the international discussion. Few non-Estonians outside Estonia know our language.

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