02617nam 2200553Ia 450 991045858220332120200520144314.00-674-05842-910.4159/harvard.9780674058422(CKB)2560000000053493(EBL)3300878(OCoLC)673891363(DE-B1597)209851(OCoLC)979575153(DE-B1597)9780674058422(MiAaPQ)EBC3300878(Au-PeEL)EBL3300878(CaPaEBR)ebr10428840(EXLCZ)99256000000005349320100212d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIn praise of copying[electronic resource] /Marcus BoonCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20101 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-04783-4 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1/ What Is a Copy? -- 2/ Copia, or, The Abundant Style -- 3/ Copying as Transformation -- 4/ Copying as Deception -- 5/ Montage -- 6/ The Mass Production of Copies -- 7/ Copying as Appropriation -- Coda -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexGerman 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.CopyingPhilosophical anthropologyMahayana BuddhismDoctrinesElectronic books.Copying.Philosophical anthropology.Mahayana BuddhismDoctrines.153Boon Marcus595986MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458582203321In praise of copying2480327UNINA