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Knowledge as Property

In: America’s Culture of Professionalism

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  • David Warfield Brown

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America’s culture of professionalism has powerful ties to the country’s legacy of self-reliance, which emerged in the early nineteenth century among new landowners and artisans. “Self-reliance” was famously celebrated in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay, which was cobbled together from his lectures and journals of the 1830s. In his seclusion and self-absorption, Emerson was mainly addressing his own need to affirm himself, but the essay spoke to a fast-forming culture that was putting aside old world antecedents of “hireling” labor and replacing them with free bargaining agents. It was an ambitious culture of expansion that depended on men and women—both those of religious faith and those unsettled in their beliefs—who were determined to make a place for themselves without the promise of help extended by either church or state.1

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  • David Warfield Brown, 2014. "Knowledge as Property," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: America’s Culture of Professionalism, chapter 0, pages 9-28, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33715-3_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137337153_2
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