Bill Maurer / Gabriele Schwab (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Accelerating Possession

Global Futures of Property and Personhood

Herausgeber: Maurer, Bill; Schwab, Gabriele

Beschreibung

Written by prominent scholars, this title explores the relationship between property and personhood. It considers a range of topics, including: the establishment of the rule of property in US-occupied Iraq; the work of John Locke; and reflections on property and personhood in the art of Jenny Holzer and the novels of Stanislaw Lem.

Autor

Bill Maurer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of three books, including Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and faculty associate in anthropology. She is the author of four books, including Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language.

Produktdetails

• A Critical Theory Institute Book
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780231137843
• ISBN-10: 0231137842
• Artikelnr.: 21360507