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
12 - Attentional Precedence
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
Even one convinced by the arguments of Chapter 11 might still find my use of “currency” metaphors in the context of respect stretched. Chapter 9 characterized “valorization” as a mode of relative valuation, and our ordinary (financial) understanding of currency similarly connotes a basis for evaluative comparison. However, one might reasonably complain that nothing I have said so far really entitles me to the claim that love and respect have any comparative element. Perhaps the affective modes of love and respect are, as I have argued, frameworks whose operation tells us something about how people matter to significant others, but it remains to show that they can inform us about how people matter relative to one another.
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- Human Dignity and Political Criticism , pp. 179 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021