Academic

Ward on Antiquities, Forests, and the Phenomenology of Value

By Lawrence Solum

Tony Ward (University of Hull - School of Law) has posted Antiquities, Forests and Simmel's Sociology of Value (ARCHAEOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY: STUDIES IN LOOTED ANTIQUITIES, Simon Mackenzie and Penny Green, eds., Oxford Hart, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

The illicit markets in antiquities and timber both involve damage to objects to which many people attach great intrinsic value, which is not reducible to economic value. Harms of this nature pose a problem for criminological theories that focus on empathy or human rights. To understand them we need to investigate the phenomenology of value. The classic investigation of this subject in the sociological canon is that of Georg Simmel. This chapter explores the continuing relevance of Simmel's analysis of value to criminology.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).