The Tyranny of Comparison is a philosophical inquiry into how external gaze penetrates the construction of selfhood, desire, and worth. It is not a plea for self-sufficiency, nor a manifesto against others. Rather, this book proposes something more unsettling: a reflection on comparison as a form of symbolic violence, an invisible metric that measures existence and undermines singularity.

Exploring themes such as envy, recognition, mimetic desire, performance, and authenticity, the work exposes subtle yet powerful mechanisms that shape our emotional, social, and existential lives. With references to Girard, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Plato, Byung-Chul Han, and Kierkegaard, it does not offer healing but lucidity. No solutions — only questions. No techniques — but provocations.

To think the tyranny of comparison is to begin a quiet rebellion: not a rejection of the other, but an affirmation of a way of being that escapes rankings, metrics, and applause. A discreet invitation to inhabit one's own measure with courage.