TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploited
T2 - Exploitation as a subjective category
AU - Deranty, Jean Philippe
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - I focus on exploitation from the point of view of those who suffer from it, and so I take exploitation as a category of subjective experience. Adopting a subjective perspective on exploitation highlights important conceptual aspects about it and suggests important methodological rules on how to critically discuss social forms of exploitation. I start by introducing some key conceptual distinctions in the first two sections. These distinctions lead me to formulate a first, general definition of exploitation as a subjective category, in the third section of the paper. In the fourth section, I ask what relationship there is between the objective and subjective senses of exploitation, and I turn to the work of Marx. This is because, as I try to argue, Marx’s approach is exemplary for tying together an objective and a subjective sense of exploitation. Based on a schematic rendition of Marx’s use of a dual perspective on exploitation, in the last sections of the paper, I draw a number of conceptual and normative conclusions.
AB - I focus on exploitation from the point of view of those who suffer from it, and so I take exploitation as a category of subjective experience. Adopting a subjective perspective on exploitation highlights important conceptual aspects about it and suggests important methodological rules on how to critically discuss social forms of exploitation. I start by introducing some key conceptual distinctions in the first two sections. These distinctions lead me to formulate a first, general definition of exploitation as a subjective category, in the third section of the paper. In the fourth section, I ask what relationship there is between the objective and subjective senses of exploitation, and I turn to the work of Marx. This is because, as I try to argue, Marx’s approach is exemplary for tying together an objective and a subjective sense of exploitation. Based on a schematic rendition of Marx’s use of a dual perspective on exploitation, in the last sections of the paper, I draw a number of conceptual and normative conclusions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986538589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/sjp.12185
DO - 10.1111/sjp.12185
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986538589
VL - 54
SP - 31
EP - 43
JO - Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - Southern Journal of Philosophy
SN - 0038-4283
ER -