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Contested Commodities

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-674-00716-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 05.12.2001
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Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices ought to be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequality, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy. As a philosophical pragmatist, the author therefore argues for a conception of incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under carefully regulated circumstances. Such a regulatory regime both symbolizes the importance of nonmarket value to personhood and aspires to ameliorate the underlying conditions of inequality.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780674007161
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-674-00716-1
  • Verlag: Harvard University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 05.12.2001
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 467 g
  • Seiten: 296
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 235 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Margaret Jane Radin is Professor of Law at Stanford University.