Book contents
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Commercial and Human Economies
from Part III - A Revisionist Approach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2021
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part I The Contours of Dignitarian Humanism
- Part II Against Traditional Accounts of Human Dignity
- Part III A Revisionist Approach
- 8 Dignity-Revisionism: Challenges and Opportunities
- 9 Commercial and Human Economies
- 10 Marx on Value and Valorization
- 11 Love and Respect: Attentional Currencies
- 12 Attentional Precedence
- 13 Human Dignity
- 14 After Respect
- 15 Human Dignity and Political Criticism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces several general ideas from which I propose to reconstruct an account of human dignity that I hope can answer to the challenges and opportunities described in previous chapters. All of them concern the similarities and differences between the social exchanges that determine market value or “price” and those that one might implicate in human dignity understood (as I am proposing) as a socially emergent quality. Although related, they can be grouped under three headings
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- Human Dignity and Political Criticism , pp. 126 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021