Impersonations : troubling the person in law and culture / / Sheryl N. Hamilton
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| Autore: |
Hamilton Sheryl N. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Impersonations : troubling the person in law and culture / / Sheryl N. Hamilton
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophical anthropology |
| Persons | |
| Persons (Law) | |
| Culture and law | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Impersonations |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-6964-0 |
| 1-4426-9758-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819169903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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