ABSTRACT
How might one assign a price to thought? Philosophy, for all its manifold reflections on thought, has rarely considered this question. The value of thought, yes, but its price? Nevertheless, in a modern age of nihilism, when the highest values are devalued,1 and in an age of free-market cynicism, when ‘money is the universal self-established value of all things’,2 the pricing of thought may come to play as crucial a role in the philosophy of the twenty-first century as the historicity of thought did in the twentieth.
