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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.
| Author(s) | By Lisa Siraganian (J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities, Johns Hopkins University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 288 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 19 Nov 2020 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
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
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, s
