Contingencies of Value [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 43 (3):646-647 (1990)
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Contingencies of Value offers an extended critique of various ways in which objectivists in literary theory, social science, and philosophy have conceived value and evaluation. As the book progresses, Barbara Herrnstein Smith offers and defends her own relativist approach to the subject of value.

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