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BizStore » Books » Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and GirouxOur Price: $20.58 You Save: $2.42 (11%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Author(s): Lewis Hyde
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux EAN: 9780374532796 Edition: Reprint Feature: Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN: 0374532796 Item Dimensions: Array Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Languages: Array Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux MPN: 1 b&w illustration Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2011-10-25 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 2011-10-25 Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Editorial Review:
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is âintellectual property,â Lewis Hyde turns to Americaâs Founding Fathersâmen such as Adams, Madison, and Jeffersonâin search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination. What he discovers is a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve. Â For the founders, democratic self-governance itself demanded open and easy access to ideas. So did the growth of creative communities such as that of eighteenth-century science. And so did the flourishing of public persons, the very actors whose âcivic virtueâ brought the nation into being. Â In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylanâs musical roots. Common as Air allows us to stand on the shoulders of Americaâs revolutionary giants and thus to see beyond todayâs narrow debates over cultural ownership. What it reveals is nothing less than a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit. Related Items ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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