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ISBN-10 :  0192639639 

ISBN-13 :  9780192639639

Author :  Lisa Siraganian 

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 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, this volume 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.

Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons 1st Table of contents:

1. Contracting without Meaning
Frank Norris’s “Full-Bellied Script”
Drawing the Intending Colossus or Meaningless Monster
Meeting the Minds of The Octopus
Matching Signs with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The Bad Man’s Theory of Art
2. Incoherent Corporate Speech
Buying F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Mind Merchandise
Literalizing the Marketplace of Ideas, from Ronald Coase to Citizens United
Speaking with “Half a Dozen” Rings in The Love of the Last Tycoon
Genre with Some Sugar: Pat Hobby’s Coda
3. Emergent Corporate Mind
Debating a Figure of Speech with Harold Laski and Justice Holmes
How Corporate Mind Became Frederic Maitland’s Action Problem
The Emergence of the Poetic n + 1
Reading Gertrude Stein’s G. M. P. on the Ticker Tape
Modern Art versus Corporate Objects
4. Limited Poetic Liability
The Limits of Negligent Attention
Piercing the Veil of Corporate Symbols with Maurice Wormser
Theodore Dreiser’s Master and No Master
Charles Reznikoff’s Social Political Correlative
5. Invisible Corporate Man
“Any Person[s]” in the Fourteenth Amendment
Was the Corporate Person Black?
Every Citizen an Abstract Corporation Sole
George Schuyler’s Black No More, Incorporated and Patented
Ralph Ellison’s City of Invisibility
Coda as Brief: Contemporary Literature v. Hobby Lobby

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