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15 Lost Cause

Barbara E. Johnson

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Prologue 1
1 Toys R Us: Legal Persons, Personal Pronouns, Definitions 3
Things
2 The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge 27
3 Monuments 34
The Thingliness of Persons
4 Ego Sum Game 47
5 They Urn It 61
6 Puppets and Prostheses 83
7 Using People: Kant with Winnicott 94
The Personhood of Things
8 Romancing the Stone 109
9 Surmounted Beliefs 131
10 Artificial Life 153
11 Real Dolls 163
12 Animation 168
Persons
13 Face Value 179
14 Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law 188
15 Lost Cause 208
Epilogue 229
Notes 235
Acknowledgments 251
Index 253

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056534-016

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Prologue 1
1 Toys R Us: Legal Persons, Personal Pronouns, Definitions 3
Things
2 The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge 27
3 Monuments 34
The Thingliness of Persons
4 Ego Sum Game 47
5 They Urn It 61
6 Puppets and Prostheses 83
7 Using People: Kant with Winnicott 94
The Personhood of Things
8 Romancing the Stone 109
9 Surmounted Beliefs 131
10 Artificial Life 153
11 Real Dolls 163
12 Animation 168
Persons
13 Face Value 179
14 Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law 188
15 Lost Cause 208
Epilogue 229
Notes 235
Acknowledgments 251
Index 253

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