Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons Siraganian Lisa J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature J. R. Her
Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely speak with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American…
Specifikacia Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons Siraganian Lisa J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature J. R. Her
Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely speak with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowing a non-human entity with certain rights exposed a fundamental philosophical question about the possibility of collective intention. That question extended beyond the law and became essential to modern American literature. This volume offers the first multidisciplinary intellectual history of this story of corporate personhood.The possibility that large collective organizations might mean to act like us, like persons, animated a diverse set of American writers, artists, and theorists of the corporation in the first half of the twentieth century, stimulating a revolution of thought on