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- Title
THE FREE IMPERSONALITY OF BOURGEOIS SPIRIT.
- Authors
BRENNAN, TIMOTHY
- Abstract
This essay examines the philosophy of personhood throughout modern economic history, focusing on developments in legal corporate personhood in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author focuses on several major points, including the concept of impersonality, historical and contemporary implications of the term bourgeois, and the underlying philosophy of American capitalism. Through these elements, the author asserts that corporate personhood is a conventional feature of free market societies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PERSONALITY (Law); CAPITALISM -- Philosophy; MIDDLE class; CORPORATION law; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); MARKET ideology; PHILOSOPHY of economics; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0162-4962
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/bio.2014.0010