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Value is typically theorized from the frameworks of economic theory
or of moral/ethical theory, but we need to instead think about
value foremost as political. Alena Wolflink uncovers a tension in
value discourses between material and aspirational life. As she
shows, erasing this tension, as has been the historical tendency,
can entrench existing configurations of power and privilege, while
acknowledging the tension is a vital part of democratic practice.
Using genealogical, conceptual-historical, and interpretive
approaches, and drawing from such diverse sources as Aristotle,
Anna Julia Cooper, Michael Warner, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse
Khan-Cullors, Wolflink argues that abstractions of value discourse
in both economic theory and moral philosophy have been complicit in
devaluing the lives of women, queer people, and people of color.
Yet she further argues that value claims nonetheless hold
democratic potential as a means of asserting and defining
priorities that center the role of political economy in the making
of political communities. With many real-world examples vividly
portrayed, Claiming Value is an unusually accessible work of
political theory accessible to students in courses on political
theory, moral philosophy, social theory, economic theory,
democracy, social inequality, and more.
Value is typically theorized from the frameworks of economic theory
or of moral/ethical theory, but we need to instead think about
value foremost as political. Alena Wolflink uncovers a tension in
value discourses between material and aspirational life. As she
shows, erasing this tension, as has been the historical tendency,
can entrench existing configurations of power and privilege, while
acknowledging the tension is a vital part of democratic practice.
Using genealogical, conceptual-historical, and interpretive
approaches, and drawing from such diverse sources as Aristotle,
Anna Julia Cooper, Michael Warner, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse
Khan-Cullors, Wolflink argues that abstractions of value discourse
in both economic theory and moral philosophy have been complicit in
devaluing the lives of women, queer people, and people of color.
Yet she further argues that value claims nonetheless hold
democratic potential as a means of asserting and defining
priorities that center the role of political economy in the making
of political communities. With many real-world examples vividly
portrayed, Claiming Value is an unusually accessible work of
political theory accessible to students in courses on political
theory, moral philosophy, social theory, economic theory,
democracy, social inequality, and more.
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