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