Beschreibung
The volume collects essays discussing the concept of personhood in law from the perspective of the revolutionary advancements in the contemporary science and technology. It offers an overview of what becomes the most important challenge for legal orders today – the evolving concept of who should count for the law and why.
Autorenportrait
Tomasz Pietrzykowski is professor at the Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
Brunello Stancioli is Doctor of Law and full time Tenured Law Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Inhalt
Contents: Tomasz Pietrzykowski/Brunello Stancioli: Introduction: Modern Challenges to the Concept of a Person in Law – Tomasz Pietrzykowski: Law, Personhood, and the Discontents of Juridical Humanism – Brunello Stancioli/Daniel Ribeiro: Dignity as Constraint and as Freedom: On the Meanings of Human Dignity for a Transhuman World – Wojciech Za?uski: The Concept of Person in the Light of Evolutionary Theory and Neuroscience – Carolina Nasser/Nara Carvalho/Brunello Stancioli/Laís Lopes: An Adequate Concept of Human Body: Debunking Mind-Body Dualism – Malte-Christian Gruber: Legal Subjects and Partial Legal Subjects in Electronic Commerce – Miodrag Jovanovi?: Constructing Legal Personality of Collective Entities - The Case of «Peasants» – Tatiana Chauvin: Philosophical Anthropology as a Model of Human Legal Subjectivity – Antonio Cota Marçal/Paula Maria Nasser Cury: The Constitutive Journey Toward Individual Personhood – Tomasz Pietrzykowski: Beyond Personhood: From Two Conceptions of Rights to Two Kinds of Right-Holders.
