{"product_id":"9781350650725","title":"Genealogy of Personhood Fictions of Law, Life, and Artificial Intelligence","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePolitical Theologies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eGenealogy of Personhood\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFictions of Law, Life, and Artificial Intelligence\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSebastián Rodríguez-Cárdenas | Arthur Bradley | Antonio Cerella\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ History \u0026amp; Surveys \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAre the boundaries of human life fixed or open to interpretation and reinvention, and is personhood just a fictional construct?\u003c\/b\u003e The recent attributing of human dignity to rivers, robots, and now AI, has challenged how we think about the frame of the human. But is this a new phenomenon? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the shifting boundary between human and non-human dignities, rights and freedoms. From Roman law to today's debates surrounding animals, forests, and AI, the book reveals that the boundary between persons and things - between what is human and what is not - has never been fixed, but is an open and contested frame determined by legal, theological, and biopolitical practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book presents a cartography of personhood in Western culture - from Roman jurists and theatre to theological ideas - followed by a consideration of how these same ideas have extended or challenged human definitions. Within this two-part structure, the six chapters map a deep relationality between the politics of humanization and dehumanization, between fictions that both protect and exclude, subjectify and subject; historical layers that have provided the groundwork for modern juridical and biopolitical conceptions of personhood, granted with rights, agency and freedoms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining a historian's scope with the keen critical eye of a philosopher, Rodríguez-Cárdenas reveals how personhood works in two ways: it can be both forged by cultural narratives as well as denied. Rather than a timeless essence, personhood is a historical and contested formation, produced through shifting fictions of inclusion and exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSebastián Rodríguez-Cárdenas\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia. Working between Spanish and English, he is a translator of contemporary philosophical thought and poetry, such as Elettra Stimilli's \u003ci\u003eFilosofia dei mezzi\u003c\/i\u003e (2025).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350650725\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51965855858828,"sku":"9781350650725","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_ae5b9b45-e791-4024-9147-20f058337453.jpg?v=1786071483","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350650725","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}