Persons and things

Prologue

1. Toys R Us: Legal Persons, Personal Pronouns, Definitions

Things

2. The Poetics of Things: Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge

3. Monuments

The Thingliness of Persons

4. Ego Sum Game

5. They Urn It

6. Puppets and Prostheses

7. Using People: Kant with Winnicott

The Personhood of Things

8. Romancing the Stone

9. Surmounted Beliefs

10. Artificial Life

11. Real Dolls

12. Animation

Persons

13. Face Value

14. Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law

15. Lost Cause

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index