Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement
Autor Ariel Colonomosen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 aug 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780192890559
ISBN-10: 0192890557
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0192890557
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Pricing Lives is a tour de force and a book of many talents. It effortlessly brings together literature, philosophy, history, economics, and political theory to address the fundamental issue of the value of life in a variety of contexts. To what extent do we value life? How do we put a price on life? How do the answers given to these questions define us as human beings and societies? These are some of the issues that Ariel Colonomos explores. Last but not least, the book is written in a highly elegant style that makes it a real pleasure to read.
'In this brilliant and knowledge-rich book, written at a time of global fragility, Ariel Colonomos questions the value of human life, that is, the price that societies, governments, and communities are willing to pay to save lives. Putting a price on life (and death) is at the heart of social relations, and balancing life and interests lies at the core of the political. But is it the human lives that matter or the goods that come with them? And are the prices given to lives indicative of the value we place on life?
Ariel Colonomos has been, for many years, one of the most provocative and profound thinkers about the politics of life and death. His new book, Pricing Lives, is a fascinating tour through the last five centuries of Western political thought, with incisive stops at a remarkable range of examples, from Renaissance hostage-taking to COVID policy to popular film and tv. Along the way, Colonomos skewers the pieties of the pricelessness of life and reveals the compromise and bargaining that - sometimes crassly, sometimes subtly - mark the tradeoffs with which life presents us. Readers from law, politics, international relations, and philosophy will find much to admire here
In this fascinating, ambitious book eminent political theorist Ariel Colonomos argues that the political sphere depends upon the act of pricing lives. Whatever sphere of domestic or international politics one is concerned with - national welfare, climate change, terrorism and counterinsurgency, global health, etc. - this book is of sharp intellectual import and impact.
Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.
a groundbreaking analysis thanks to its wealth of theoretical observations and empirical examples, but also to its innovative way of combining arguments taken from drama analysis, the history of philosophy, and religious doctrine, to develop an integrated theory of the negotiation dynamics of the value of human lives as part of the history of the (European) state.
'In this brilliant and knowledge-rich book, written at a time of global fragility, Ariel Colonomos questions the value of human life, that is, the price that societies, governments, and communities are willing to pay to save lives. Putting a price on life (and death) is at the heart of social relations, and balancing life and interests lies at the core of the political. But is it the human lives that matter or the goods that come with them? And are the prices given to lives indicative of the value we place on life?
Ariel Colonomos has been, for many years, one of the most provocative and profound thinkers about the politics of life and death. His new book, Pricing Lives, is a fascinating tour through the last five centuries of Western political thought, with incisive stops at a remarkable range of examples, from Renaissance hostage-taking to COVID policy to popular film and tv. Along the way, Colonomos skewers the pieties of the pricelessness of life and reveals the compromise and bargaining that - sometimes crassly, sometimes subtly - mark the tradeoffs with which life presents us. Readers from law, politics, international relations, and philosophy will find much to admire here
In this fascinating, ambitious book eminent political theorist Ariel Colonomos argues that the political sphere depends upon the act of pricing lives. Whatever sphere of domestic or international politics one is concerned with - national welfare, climate change, terrorism and counterinsurgency, global health, etc. - this book is of sharp intellectual import and impact.
Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.
a groundbreaking analysis thanks to its wealth of theoretical observations and empirical examples, but also to its innovative way of combining arguments taken from drama analysis, the history of philosophy, and religious doctrine, to develop an integrated theory of the negotiation dynamics of the value of human lives as part of the history of the (European) state.
Notă biografică
Ariel Colonomos is Research Professor at CNRS and Sciences Po in Paris where he is affiliated with CERI. He has taught in the Political Science department at Columbia and at SIPA, and has held numerous visiting positions in the US. His work focuses on international relations and political theory, and his recent works include Moralizing International Relations (Palgrave, 2008), The Gamble of War (Palgrave, 2013), and Selling the Future—The Perils of Predicting Global Politics (Hurst/OUP, 2016), which received the ISA Ethics section book award.