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dc.contributor.authorHESSELINK, Martijn Willem
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-22T11:44:59Z
dc.date.available2023-12-22T11:44:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationEuropean law open, 2023, Vol. 2, No. SI, pp. 405-423en
dc.identifier.issn2752-6135
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76235
dc.descriptionPublished online: 31 October 2023en
dc.description.abstractThis paper offers a critique of European Union (EU) consumer law’s role in commodification. Arguing that commodification is best understood as a normatively dependent concept, it contrasts two very different strands of commodification critique. While teleological critique refers to conceptions of the good life, authenticity, or the corruption of human essence, deontological critique relies on conceptions of right and wrong, justice, and human dignity. The paper argues for a specific, Kantian–Marxian version of the latter, proposing to understand commodification as a moral wrong when it leads to legal–political alienation. Such legal–political alienation occurs when someone becomes disconnected or feels dissociated from the political community and its political institutions because its laws treat that person as a mere means, not also an end. The only way to overcome such alienating commodification, the paper argues, is through a dialectic of individual and collective self-determination. On this normative basis, the paper, then, critiques core instances where EU consumer law wrongs its addressees through alienating commodification, including its acceptance of personal data as consideration, its encouragement of consumer resilience, and its privatisation of social justice through ethical consumerism.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean law openen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleAlienation commodification : a critique of the role of EU consumer lawen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/elo.2023.33
dc.identifier.volume2en
dc.identifier.startpage405en
dc.identifier.endpage423en
dc.identifier.issuesen
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