Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cabinet 58: Theft

Cabinet 58: Theft

Najafi, Sina

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryArt & Popular Culture

Publisher Price: $12.00

ISBN10: 1932698663
ISBN13: 9781932698664
Publisher: Cabinet
Published: Feb 23 2016
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.80 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Across history, the morality of taking what belongs to another has been of concern to both theologians and lawmakers. Yet theft necessarily raises the question of what constitutes ownership, opening onto a longstanding philosophical debate about the relationship between property, freedom and virtue that stretches from Plato through Aquinas, Kant and Marx to contemporary theorists of intellectual property. And the different kinds of stealing--embezzlement, fraud, extortion, piracy, shoplifting--are as expansive as the categories of things (objects, ideas, images, styles, identities) that are understood to require protection from thievery. Cabinet 58, with a special section on Theft, includes Susan Brewer on intellectual property debates in the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries; Merle Harman on beach theft in the Caribbean; and Anton Sears on the diversionary techniques of the pickpocket. Elsewhere in the issue: Luke Healey on the aesthetics and politics of the soccer player's dive, and Margaret Wertheim on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Also in

Art Criticism & Theory

View All