What does "to give text a legal owner, to justify a text’s authority" mean?
Hello! Would you please help me understand this part of a sentence?
to give text a legal owner, to justify a text’s authority.
And also do I correctly understand that there are two mutually independent parts in the sentence? The first one is "to give text a legal owner" and the second one is "to justify a text’s authority".
context:
For Foucault, the importance of the author is their ‘function’ in society – for instance, to give text a legal owner, to justify a text’s authority, and so forth.
Top answer
riverbottom to give text a legal owner to find out who owns a piece of writing You can interpret 'own' in the sense of 'be the author of'. In our day this is not so problematic, but scholars often have to do a lot of research to find out who wrote an ancient text. You can also interpret 'own' is the sense of 'have as part of their culture'.
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riverbottomto give text a legal owner
to find out who owns a piece of writing
You can interpret 'own' in the sense of 'be the author of'. In our day this is not so problematic, but scholars often have to do a lot of research to find out who wrote an ancient text.
You can also interpret 'own' is the sense of 'have as part of their culture'. A v
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