Abstract
The article aims to analyze the idea of valuing an existence by analyzing valorization situations based on evaluation in monetary terms. This is done employing the symmetrization between two studies based on in-depth interviews: one about how people in the process of egressing from the penal system compare the money they earn in “honest life” with that originally earned in crime; and one about how judges calculate compensations for moral damages related to deaths and other body losses. The dialogue between the two studies made it possible to observe that comes into play in the definitions of these situations a movement towards making both money and existence significant. It also made it possible to deduce two regimes for valorizing existence, one centered on the intrinsic recognition of human life, and the other focused on the evaluation of one’s biography.
Keywords:
Existence; Money; Valuation; Evaluation; Valorization
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