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Author | : Thalia Field |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0811229742 |
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A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.
Author | : Joseph Dumit |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0691236623 |
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By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies.
Author | : Jack Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107018080 |
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A new examination of the psychology of personhood, which views persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings.
Author | : Susanna Kim Ripken |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108416527 |
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Explores the nature of corporate personhood and how it affects the rights, powers, and influence of corporations in society.
Author | : Tomasz Pietrzykowski |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3319788817 |
Download Personhood Beyond Humanism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right - the right to be taken into account.
Author | : Leo F. Buscaglia |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780449900673 |
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In this book, Leo Buscaglia attempts to offer an historic view of the ethical principles that have guided our humanity. He believes that everyone is responsible through their own uniqueness for completing a portion of a vast universal canvas. Full actualization of the world, therefore, depends on one's self-actualization. Consequently, the greatest challenge to all people is to work at being fully human.
Author | : Visa A. J. Kurki |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198844034 |
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Présentation de l'éditeur: "This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic."
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004284648 |
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Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism. Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager.
Author | : Motsamai Molefe |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030155617 |
Download An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers to the moral achievements of the moral agent usually captured in terms of a virtuous character, which have consequences for both morality and politics. The aim is not to argue for the plausibility of the ethical and political consequences of the idea of personhood. Rather, the book showcases some of the moral-political content and consequences of the account it presents.
Author | : Joseph Torchia |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780742548381 |
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Explores the metaphysical underpinnings of theories of human nature, personhood, and the self. This book moves from the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism, assessing what transpired during the intervening 2500 year period, with a focus on the contributions of the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition of inquiry.