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Kant’s fight with print reveals authorship’s past, and our future.
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The Materiality of Literature
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Summary
Kant’s Copyright: Authorship and the Material Book in the Enlightenment
This book retraces the emergence of conceptions of authorship in late-eighteenth-century Germany by studying the material form of Immanuel Kant’s 1785 essay, ‘On the Wrongfulness of Reprinting’. Drawing upon book history, media theory, and literary studies, Benjamin Goh analyses the essay’s paratexts as indices of literary production in the German Enlightenment.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009654319 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009654314 |
| Series: | Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law |
| Author: | Benjamin Goh |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
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Benjamin Goh
Benjamin Goh is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He was awarded the 2024 Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature, and Justice.
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