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The problem of personhood : giving rights to trees, corporations, and robots / Lisa Siraganian.

Van Pelt Library K625 .S57 2026
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Siraganian, Lisa, Author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Persons (Law).
Juristic persons.
Physical Description:
x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Verso, 2026.
Summary:
"Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics? How personhood for corporations and everything else exploits us today"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : Unbecoming us
Artificial, inc. : Theorizing the expansive person
Unborn fictions : fetal persons and their women containers
Animals : the majority group to which we belong
Tongueless trees : standing on environmental persons
ePersons, as if : temptations of mimicry and artifice
Conclusion : Letting persons go.
Notes:
"An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared in Representations 172 (2025), and chapter 2 in Public Culture 37: 3 (2025)"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version Siraganian, Lisa Problem of personhood
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781804293447
180429344X
OCLC:
1504595268
Publisher Number:
CIPO000327731

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