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Afterword: After the Great Undoing

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The chapters gathered together in Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law raises a question of vital urgency: who, or what, are we becoming? They investigate many of the key conundrums and lines of fracture that attend this, in many ways unprecedented, moment in the history of modern personhood. While the chapters touch on a wide range of perplexing topics from data doppelgangers, genetic privacy and the rights of pre-conceived children, to contending theories of pain and proof, taken as a whole the volume makes a strong case that in our time the concept of personhood has become profoundly destabilized. We could say “undone”.

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  1. Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA

    David Delaney

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  1. Law, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Marc de Leeuw

  2. Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Sonja van Wichelen

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Delaney, D. (2020). Afterword: After the Great Undoing. In: de Leeuw, M., van Wichelen, S. (eds) Personhood in the Age of Biolegality. Biolegalities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27848-9_14

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