Some Philosophical Help with “Neoliberalism”

Gersel, Johan; Thaning, Morten Sørensen

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“…With this in mind, and given philosophy and anthropology's common opposition to reductive theories of value, there is a potentially fruitful division of labor that might play out across future academic collaborations. The ongoing philosophical critique of the assumptions underlying homo economicus , the idea that humans are rational utility maximizers with stable preferences, can help to clear the way for anthropological investigations of how preferences are not given but culturally shaped and how motivations are not univocal and necessarily selfish, but complex and often even contradictory (Gersel & Thaning, 2022). In this way the philosophical critique of reductive theory, by freeing us from a certain abstract picture of human practices that holds us captive, implicitly accentuates the usefulness of inductive theorizing and meets up with anthropology's typical way of working (Souleles et al, 2022).…”

Section: Anthropological Theories Of Value and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to special issue: Value, values, and anthropology

Souleles

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Thaning

2023

Economic Anthropology

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Anthropologists have spent tremendous effort developing value theory. We might generally understand value theory as a form of social theory concerned with what groups of people find important or worthwhile in life; how those groups of people, via their relationships, identify, seek, and create that which is valuable; how ideas of value and worth inhere in people and things; and how those people and things then circulate and meet other universes of value. This introduction specifically, and this special issue more generally, seeks to build on this bedrock conception of value theory to offer a series of implications and considerations one should take on board when thinking about value. We suggest that these considerations will allow social researchers to more ably understand the pressing issues that motivate their investigations.

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Section: Anthropological Theories Of Value and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%