Title:
Common as air : revolution, art, and ownership / Lewis Hyde.
Author:
Hyde, Lewis, 1945-
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Call Number:
ZA3270 .H93 2010
Abstract:
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 Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.--Book jacket.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780374223137
Physical Description:
[xi], 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Defending the cultural commons -- What is a commons? -- The enclosure of culture -- Framing a commonwealth -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pirate -- Liberty to communicate -- The common self -- The common self now -- Enduring commons.
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