The book will pursue a dual aim: first, from an ethical point of view, to provide readers with a critical reading of the equation between value and being as it has been produced within Western thought across the centuries, budding into exploitation; and second, to offer theoretical tools capable of disentangling being from value. By value, I refer not only to economic value—that is, the emergence of money as a social equivalent in systems of exchange—but also to value as an ethico-political category that organizes societal structures (as in the historical alignment of gender and sex), and as a normative framework that regulates life conditions (such as conceptions of time and temporality through which daily life is structured and governed). The monograph seeks to interrogate the sedimentation of these values and to explore possibilities for rethinking being beyond their constraints.