This title 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. Hyde turns to America's founding fathers in search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination.
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In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.--Book jacket. This title 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. Hyde turns to America's founding fathers in search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Depending the cultural commons; 2. What us a commons?; 3. The enclosure of culture; 4. Framing a commonnwealth; 5. Benjamin Franklin, founding pirate; 6. Liberty to communicate; 7. The common self; 8. The common self now; 9. Enduring commons.