Monday, February 27, 2017

Word Magic / Language and Myth, Ernst Cassirer

When, in Roman law, the concept of the "legal person" was formally articulated, and this status was denied to certain physical subjects, those subjects were also denied official possession of a proper name. Under Roman law a slave had no legal name, because he could not function as a legal person. 


I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.single.html