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Impersonations : troubling the person in law and culture / Sheryl N. Hamilton.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Sheryl N., 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Persons.
- Persons (Law).
- Culture and law.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6964-0
- 1-4426-9758-X
- OCLC:
- 707712833
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