Impersonations : Troubling the Person in Law and Culture /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, Sheryl N., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2010], 2009
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Philosophy.
Philosophical anthropology.
Persons (Law)
Persons.
Culture and law.
LAW > Legal History.
philosophical anthropology.
people (agents)
Anthropologie philosophique.
Technologie > Philosophie.
Personnes (Droit)
Personnes.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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