Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons

Exploring legal treatises, court decisions, political illustrations, photographs, and modernist literature, this volume reveals that the ambiguous status of corporate intention in the first half of the twentieth century provoked conflicting theories of meaning and interpretation still debated today.

Table des matières

• Introduction: Acting Corporate


• 1: Contracting Without Meaning


• 2: Incoherent Corporate Speech


• 3: Emergent Corporate Mind


• 4: Limited Poetic Liability


• 5: Invisible Corporate Man


• Coda as Brief: Contemporary Literature v. Hobby Lobby

A propos de l'auteur

Lisa Siraganian is J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities, Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life, shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize (2013). Her work has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Résumé

Exploring legal treatises, court decisions, political illustrations, photographs, and modernist literature, this volume reveals that the ambiguous status of corporate intention in the first half of the twentieth century provoked conflicting theories of meaning and interpretation still debated today.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lisa Siraganian, Lisa (J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Hum Siraganian, Siraganian Lisa
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9780198868873
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886887-3
• Pages: 288
• Thème: Law and Literature
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law