Persons and Things / / Barbara E. Johnson.
Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with w...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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