Richard Roe: A Memoir of a Legal Person - Couverture souple

Coburn, Tyler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3956794648 ISBN 13 : 9783956794643

Editeur : Sternberg Press, 2020

Synopsis

Richard Roe is the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can't be identified. Richard Roe is a known unknown, a one-size-fits-all, a potentially everyone and actually no one. Divided into seven fragmentary sections, this memoir gives voice to the legal fictions that creep around the margins of selfhood-and that increasingly dictate the terms of economic and political process. It draws on numerous concepts of personhood from legal, psychological, linguistic, and metaphysical realms, including Ancient Roman juridical theory; Medieval writings on materialism; and arguments, of the last two centuries, for the legal personhood of corporations, rivers, and other elements of the natural world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tyler Coburn is a writer and artist who lives and works in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sternberg Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3956794648
• ISBN 13: 9783956794643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
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• Personne responsable: non disponible