Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Corporate Persons, Revisited 1
5. Part One: Noble Households, Ignoble Subjects
6. 1 The Corporation’s Neoliberal Soul? 23
7. 2 Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty, and the Problem of Corporate Personhood 52
8. 3 Watched Over by Assemblages of Providential Grace 77
9. Part Two: The Social Theory of the Corporation
10. 4 From Public Sphere to Personalized Feed: Corporate Constitutional Rights and the Challenge to Popular Sovereignty 113
11. 5 Exceptionally Gifted: Corporate Exceptionalism and the Expropriation of Human Rights 141
12. Part Three: Discipline and Guardianship
13. 6 Killing Corporations to Save Humans: How Corporate Personhood, Human Rights, and the Corporate Death Penalty Intersect 175
14. 7 Already Artificial: Legal Personality and Animal Rights 211
15. Part Four: Corporate Personification
16. 8 The Livestock That Therefore We Are: Two Episodes from the Prehistory of Corporate Personhood 259
17. 9 Immortal and Intangible? Corporate Metaphysics in Jacksonian America 288
18. Contributors 325
19. Index 329