In praise of copying / Marcus Boon.

Main entry:

Boon, Marcus.

Title & Author:

In praise of copying / Marcus Boon.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Description:

285 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is a copy? -- Copia, or, The abundant style -- Copying as transformation -- Copying as deception -- Montage -- The mass production of copies -- Copying as appropriation.

Summary:

"This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in.

ISBN:

9780674047839 (alk. paper)
0674047834 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Copying.
Philosophical anthropology.
Mahayana Buddhism Doctrines.
Copie.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Bouddhisme Mahāyāna Doctrines.
copying.
philosophical anthropology.
02.99 science and culture in general: other.
Kopieren
Kopie
Kultur
Philosophie
Imitation (behaviour)
Reproductions.
Culture.
Filosofisk antropologi.
Kopiering teori, filosofi.

Form/genre:

Legal Canadiana.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271322
Call No.: BIB 204330
Status: Available

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