Alena Wolflink

Claiming Value (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Priority from Aristotle to Black Lives Matter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from such diverse sources as Aristotle and Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Wolflink argues that abstractions of value discourse have been complicit in devaluing the lives of women, queer people, and people of color. Yet value claims nevertheless hold democratic potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000634846
• Artikelnr.: 65153417

Autorenporträt

Alena Wolflink is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. She is a political theorist of democratic agency and identity. Her current research examines the construction of narratives about democracy and citizenship through analyses of the undercurrents of race, gender, and sexuality discourses in the language of political economy. Wolflink's work has been published in such venues as Theory & Event, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Recovering Our Political Values
2. Revaluing Need: Aristotle, Commercial Exchange, and Necessity
3. The Just Price or "Just the Price?" Conceptual History, Community
Valuation, and Liberal Sovereignty
4. What's the Matter with Value?
Anna Julia Cooper's Political-Economic Thought
5. Michael Warner and the Values of Public Sexual Culture
6. Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value
7. Conclusion: Centering Value in Political Praxis
Bibliography