In Praise of Copying PDF
by Marcus Boon
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German critic Walter Benjamin wrote some immensely influential words on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Luxury fashion houses would say something shorter and sharper and much more legally binding on the rip-off merchants who fake their products.
Marcus Boon, a Canadian English professor with an accessible turn of phrase, takes us on an erudite voyage through the theme in a serious but engaging encounter with the ideas of thinkers as varied as Plato, Hegel, Orson Welles, Benjamin, Heidegger, Louis Vuitton, Takashi Murakami and many more, on topics as philosophically taxing and pop-culture-light as mimesis, Christianity, capitalism, authenticity, Uma Thurman's handbag and Disneyland.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:11/02/2011
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- ISBN:9780674058422
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:11/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674058422