Value Theory And Criticism

Author : Orlie Pell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:$B286156

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Value-theory and Criticism by Orlie Pell Pdf

Author : Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674167856

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Contingencies of Value by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Pdf

Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory--haunted by the heresy of relativism--remains captive to classical formulas. Barbara Herrnstein Smith's book confronts the conceptual problems and sociopolitical conflicts at the heart of these issues and raises their discussion to a new level of sophistication. Polemical without being rancorous, Contingencies of Value mounts a powerful critique of traditional conceptions of value, taste, judgment, and justification. Through incisive discussions of works by, among others, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Northrop Frye, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Jürgen Habermas, Smith develops an illuminating alternative framework for the explanation of these topics. All value, she argues, is radically contingent. Neither an objective property of things nor merely a subjective response to them, it is the variable effect of numerous interacting economies that is, systems of apportionment and circulation of "goods." Aesthetic value, moral value, and the truth-value of judgments are no exceptions, though traditional critical theory, ethics, and philosophy of language have always tried to prove otherwise. Smith deals in an original way with a wide variety of contemporary issues--from the relation between popular and high culture to the conflicting conception of human motives and actions in economic theory and classical humanism. In an important final chapter, she addresses directly the crucial problem of relativism and explains why a denial of the objectivity of value does not--as commonly feared and charged--produce either a fatuous egalitarianism or moral and political paralysis.

Author : Albert Conser Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010700248

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History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy by Albert Conser Whitaker Pdf

Author : Albert Conser Whitaker
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018306765

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History and Criticism of the Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy by Albert Conser Whitaker Pdf

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Author : Ernesto Screpanti
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783747825

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Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation by Ernesto Screpanti Pdf

In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. Screpanti’s arguments are delivered with perspicuity and verve: this is a book that aims to spark a debate. He exposes ambiguities present in Marx’s exposition of his own theory, especially when dealing with the employment contract and the notions of ‘abstract labor’ and ‘labor value’, and he argues that these ambiguities have given rise to misunderstandings in previous analyses of Marx’s theory of exploitation. Screpanti’s own interpretation is a meticulously argued counterpoint to these traditional interpretations. Labour and Value is a significant contribution to the theory of economics, particularly Marxist economics. It will also be of great interest to scholars in other disciplines including sociology, political science, and moral and political philosophy. Screpanti’s clear and engaging writing style will attract the interested general reader as well as the academic theorist.

Author : Isabelle Graw,Christoph Menke
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593510101

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The Value of Critique by Isabelle Graw,Christoph Menke Pdf

The Value of Critique casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art--critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor of evaluation, which advocates alternate modes of judgment aimed at finding the intrinsic "value" of a given work rather than picking apart its intentions and relative success. This book's contributors explore the relationship between these two practices, finding that one cannot exist with the other. As soon as a critic decides an object is worthy enough of their interest and time to critique it, they have imbued that object with a certain value. Similarly, theories of value are typically marked by a critical impetus: as much as critique takes part in the construction of evaluations, bestowing something with value can then trigger critiques. Assembling essays from an international array of authors, this book is the first to put value, critique, and artistic labor in conversation with one another, making clear just how closely all three are related.

Author : Rem Blanchard Edwards
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9051838972

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Formal Axiology and Its Critics by Rem Blanchard Edwards Pdf

Formal Axiology and Its Critics consists of two parts, both of which present criticisms of the formal theory of values developed by Robert S. Hartman, replies to these criticisms, plus a short introduction to formal axiology. Part I consists of articles published or made public during the lifetime of Hartman to which he personally replied. It contains previously published replies to Hector Neri Castañeda, William Eckhardt, and Robert S. Brumbaugh, and previously unpublished replies to Charles Hartshorne, Rem B. Edwards, Robert E. Carter, G.R. Grice, Nicholas Rescher, Robert W. Mueller, Gordon Welty, Pete Gunter, and George K. Plochmann in an unfinished but now completed article on which Hartman was working at the time of his death in 1973. Part II consists of articles presented at recent annual meetings of the R.S. Hartman Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology that continue to criticize and further develop Hartman's formal axiology. An article by Rem B. Edwards raises serious unanswered questions about formal axiology and ethics. Another by Frank G. Forrest shows how the formal value calculus based on set theory might answer these questions, and an article by Mark A. Moore points out weaknesses in the Hartman/Forrest value calculus and develops an alternative calculus based upon the mathematics of quantum mechanics. While recognizing that unsolved problems remain, the book intends to make the theoretical foundations and future promise of formal axiology much more secure.

Author : Andrew Kliman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739118528

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Reclaiming Marx's Capital by Andrew Kliman Pdf

Attempts to reclaim Marx's Capital from the myth of inconsistency. This book is intended for non-specialist readers, and shows that the inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation; the temporal single-system interpretation eliminates all of the alleged inconsistencies.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521284228

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The Idea of a Critical Theory by Raymond Geuss Pdf

The purpose of this series is to help make contemporary European philosophy intelligible to a wider audience in the English-speaking world, and to suggest its interest and importance in particular to those trained in analytical philosophy.

Author : Benjamin M. Anderson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664578709

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Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. Anderson Pdf

Social Value is a study by Benjamin McAleste Anderson. It presents a vital and constructive research regarding economic theory and describes a wide range of causes and effects related to the market.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826400833

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Critical Theory by Max Horkheimer Pdf

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Author : Manya M. Mooya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662491645

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Real Estate Valuation Theory by Manya M. Mooya Pdf

This monograph critically reviews and updates real estate valuation theory, which is based on neoclassical economics, in light of developments in heterodox economic theory. Building on a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of value theory, the book uses new institutional economics theory and critical realism as lenses through which problems in standard valuation theory and practice are expatiated, and as the foundation for an alternative theory. The new theory is employed to explain major problems in real estate valuation that are beyond the capability of the standard theory, such as price bubbles in real estate markets, anchoring bias, client influence and valuation under uncertain market conditions.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:$B87540

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Espen Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139501286

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Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory by Espen Hammer Pdf

This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.

Author : Deshun Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783642256172

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Value Theory by Deshun Li Pdf

Humankind’s progress has always been driven by two momentums: the pursuit of truth and the creation of value. But our understanding of value, and our ability to reflect on its complexity, has long lagged behind our constant search for truth. This has, in turn limited our grasp of the essence of truth. This book takes philosophical contemplations on value to a new level, while also explicating some contemporary Chinese styles of philosophical thought. Over the past 25 years, this book has been having an increasing impact on Chinese readers and researchers, and it also provides a good platform for international dialogue on several key issues of philosophical studies.