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Impersonations : troubling the person in law and culture /
Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities - to discuss the instability of the concept of personhood and to examine some of the ways in which broader social anxieties are expressed in these case studies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
[2010], ©2009
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: troubling the person
- 2. Persona Fieta: the corporation as moral person
- 3. 'Not a sexy victory': gendering the person
- 4. Invented humans: kinship and property in persons
- 5. Machine intelligence: computers as posthuman persons
- 6. Celebrity personae: authenticating the person
- 7. Conclusion: impersonations.