Friends Hold All Things in Common (eBook)

Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus

Eden Kathy Eden (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-13364-6 (ISBN)

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Erasmus' influential Adages - a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity - marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about intellectual property. In this elegantly argued book, Kathy Eden focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shared with Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ and on the early history of private property that gradually transformed European attitudes concerning the right to copy.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
• ISBN-10: 0-300-13364-2 / 0300133642
• ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13364-6 / 9780300133646