Persons and Things
Published on 31. March 2010
272 pages
978-0-674-05653-4 (ISBN)
Description
Johnson begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. She revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05653-4 (9780674056534)
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Barbara Johnson
Persons and Things
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04/2008
Harvard University Press
€55.84
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Person
Barbara Johnson taught in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is the author of The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, and The Wake of Deconstruction.
Content
Contents Prologue 1. Toys R Us: Legal Persons, Personal Pronouns, Definitions Things 2. The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge 3. Monuments The Thingliness of Persons 4. Ego Sum Game 5. They Urn It 6. Puppets and Prostheses 7. Using People: Kant with Winnicott The Personhood of Things 8. Romancing the Stone 9. Surmounted Beliefs 10. Artificial Life 11. Real Dolls 12. Animation Persons 13. Face Value 14. Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law 15. Lost Cause Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
