ABSTRACT
The concept of economic rationality says nothing anywhere about any general objective of the individual. The need to be able to choose rationally in an intelligible world is simply an extension of the concept of economic rationality. Human experience can flow into a vast variety of possible frameworks, for the rational human is responsible for continually recreating a universe in which choice can take place. Enjoyment of physical consumption is only a part of the service yielded by goods; the other part is the enjoyment of sharing names. Sharing goods and being made welcome to the hospitable table and to the marriage bed are the first, closest fields of inclusion, where exclusion operates spontaneously long before political boundaries are at stake.
