Persons and Things

Barbara Johnson

    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

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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.