The materiality of literature : rereading authorship and copyright with Kant /
Goh, Benjamin
The materiality of literature : rereading authorship and copyright with Kant / Benjamin Goh. - 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations (black and white)., digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge intellectual property and information law . - Cambridge intellectual property and information law. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open access.
This work retraces the emergence of conceptions of authorship in late-18th-century Germany by studying the material form of Immanuel Kant's 1785 essay, 'On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting'. Drawing upon book history, media theory, and literary studies, Goh analyses the essay's paratexts as indices of literary production in the German Enlightenment. Far from being an idealist proponent of intellectual property, Kant is shown to be a media theorist and practitioner, whose critical negotiation with the evolving print machinery in his time helps illuminate our present struggle with digital technology and the mounting pressures borne by copyright as a proprietary institution.
Specialized.
9781009654296 (ebook)
10.1017/9781009654296 doi
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Von der Unrechtm?a?igkeit des B?uchernachdrucks.
Authorship--History--19th century.
Copyright--History--Germany--19th century.
Authorship--Philosophy.
Enlightenment--History--Germany--19th century.
Copyright--Philosophy.
B2799.A74 / G6 2025
193
The materiality of literature : rereading authorship and copyright with Kant / Benjamin Goh. - 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations (black and white)., digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge intellectual property and information law . - Cambridge intellectual property and information law. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open access.
This work retraces the emergence of conceptions of authorship in late-18th-century Germany by studying the material form of Immanuel Kant's 1785 essay, 'On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting'. Drawing upon book history, media theory, and literary studies, Goh analyses the essay's paratexts as indices of literary production in the German Enlightenment. Far from being an idealist proponent of intellectual property, Kant is shown to be a media theorist and practitioner, whose critical negotiation with the evolving print machinery in his time helps illuminate our present struggle with digital technology and the mounting pressures borne by copyright as a proprietary institution.
Specialized.
9781009654296 (ebook)
10.1017/9781009654296 doi
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Von der Unrechtm?a?igkeit des B?uchernachdrucks.
Authorship--History--19th century.
Copyright--History--Germany--19th century.
Authorship--Philosophy.
Enlightenment--History--Germany--19th century.
Copyright--Philosophy.
B2799.A74 / G6 2025
193