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From Aristotle to John Locke to Karl Marx to Anna Julia Cooper to LGBTQIA+ struggles and Black Lives Matter, Alena Wolflink explores the pressing question, through an interrogation of what it means to value and evaluate values-revealing what she calls the tension between value and values: What, in the end, are we worth? This question, well formulated by Cooper more than a century ago, drives this well-written, poignant, and careful study of the normative and economic dimensions and beyond of building democratic society and the political challenges and responsibilities such a project embodies. A genuine work of political thought, Claiming Value brings political reality to the fore with clarity, precision, and scholarly breadth. Lewis R. Gordon, author of Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization In Claiming Value Alena Wolflink skillfully traces the tension between the material/economic and ethical/aspirational senses of value. Revealing the slippage between and entwinement of these senses of value, she shows the political benefits of attending to the polyvalence of value and the injustice that arises from failing to do so. This graceful work about an ascendant and persistent political language-used by both the Black Lives Matter movement and the values voter -offers an original and timely way of articulating how any successful political struggle must simultaneously attend to the necessary interrelation between material needs and structures and the ethical character of collective life. Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis This book is a novel treatment of the problem of value. Its methodology is sound and well-justified, and it brings together an array of thinkers and writers who are rarely found in the same books or anthologies. Its scope is ambitious, and its topic is an important one for democratic life in late capitalism. Emily Nacol, University of Toronto Claiming Value makes an important contribution to political theory, political philosophy, race, gender and sexuality studies, and also theories of political economy. Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College

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Alena Wolflink is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. She is a political theorist of democratic agency and identity. Her current research examines the construction of narratives about democracy and citizenship through analyses of the undercurrents of race, gender, and sexuality discourses in the language of political economy. Wolflink’s work has been published in such venues as Theory & Event, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy and Global Affairs.

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