TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goh,Benjamin
AU  - Kant,Immanuel
TI  - The materiality of literature: rereading authorship and copyright with Kant 
T2  - Cambridge intellectual property and information law
SN  - 9781009654296 (ebook)
AV  - B2799.A74 G6 2025
U1  - 193 23
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Kant, Immanuel,
KW  - Authorship
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Germany
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Enlightenment
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Open access; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009654296
ER  -