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Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene
This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the human-earth relationship: the human.
| Author(s) | By Jana Norman. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 186 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 31 May 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human-earth relationship.As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the human-earth relationship: the human.
1. Introduction 2. The Dualised Human-Earth Relationship of Western Culture 3. Law's Role in the Human-Earth Relationship 4. The Legal Subject: Key Problem, Productive Point of Intervention 5. Introducing the Cosmic Person as Posthuman Legal Subject
Jana Norman is a researcher in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide.
