The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

by John Willinsky

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property.

Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022648792X
• ISBN13: 9780226487922
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"