Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9780367518721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Norman, Jana

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Jana Norman is a researcher in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide.