Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (e-bog) af Siraganian, Lisa
Siraganian, Lisa (forfatter)

Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons e-bog

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Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies AssociationLong before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely &quote;speak&quote; 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...
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Forfattere Siraganian, Lisa (forfatter)
Forlag OUP Oxford
Udgivet 19 november 2020
Længde 320 sider
Genrer Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780192639639
Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies AssociationLong before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "e;speak"e; 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 modernAmerican 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 intention. The ambiguous status of corporate intention provoked conflicting theories of meaning-on the relevance (or not) of authorial intention and the interpretation of collective signs or social forms-still debated today. As law struggled with opposing arguments, modernist creative writers and artists grappled with interrelated questions, albeit under different guises and formal procedures. Combining legal analysis of law reviews, treatises, and case law with literary interpretation of short stories, novels, and poems, thisvolume analyzes legal philosophers including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Frederic Maitland, Harold Laski, Maurice Wormser, and creative writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Charles Reznikoff, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and George Schuyler.