Introduction: Recovering Our Political Values -- Revaluing Need: Aristotle, Commercial Exchange, and Necessity -- The Just Price or "Just the Price?": Conceptual History, Community Valuation, and Liberal Sovereignty -- What's the Matter with Value? Anna Julia Cooper's Political-…
"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"--
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 thi…