Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

by Lewis Hyde

Book Overview

Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is intellectual property, Lewis Hyde turns to America's Founding Fathers--men like Adams, Madison, and Jefferson--in search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination. What he discovers is a rich tradition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374223130
• ISBN13: 9780374223137
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.6"