Abstract: Does a European approach to comparative literature make sense at a time when the discipline is diffracting into a multitude of practices? Is this approach suspect today? Emerging romanticism, as a comparative object, may legitimize it with the support of epistemocriticism. Combining the history of both sciences and ideas with poetic orientation, epistemocriticism indeed helps it develop a squared, theoretical and practical comparatism, both historical and critical, interdisciplinary and ethical.
