Friends Hold All Things in Common - Kathy Eden

Friends Hold All Things in Common

Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2001
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-08757-4 (ISBN)
69,95 inkl. MwSt
A study of Erasmus's "Adages". It focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favourite philosophers - Pythagoras, Plato and Christ - and the early history of private property that transforms European attitudes concerning the right to copy.
Erasmus’ Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship.

In this elegant and tightly argued book, Kathy Eden focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favorite philosophers—Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ—and the early history of private property that gradually transforms European attitudes concerning the right to copy. In the process she accounts for the peculiar shape of Erasmus’ collection of more than 3,000 proverbs and provides insightful readings of such ancient philosophical and religious thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Iamblichus, Tertullian, Basil, Jerome, and Augustine.

Kathy Eden, Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, is also the author of Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition, published by Yale University Press.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.8.2001
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 349 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 0-300-08757-8 / 0300087578
ISBN-13 978-0-300-08757-4 / 9780300087574
Zustand Neuware
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