What Is a Person?
Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Initial Arguments
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Personhood
Chapter 2. Key Theoretical Resources
Part II. Critical Engagements
Chapter 3. The Reality of Social Construction
Excursus: Getting to Truth
Chapter 4. Network Structuralism’s Missing Persons
Chapter 5. Persons and Mechanisms (Not) in Variables Sociology
Part III. Constructive Development
Chapter 6. The Personal Sources of Social Structures
Chapter 7. The Good
Chapter 8. Human Dignity
Postscript
Index
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