Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 páginas Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... Quakers; the law as an institution built upon speech that claims meaning for experience; belief beyond language, in life and law; Dante; justice and love; Simone Weil. Index 124 168 204 227 Preface A THIS BOOK DERIVES from a long ...
... Quakers, whose meetings for worship are almost entirely silent. The idea is that this shared silence is profoundly valuable, to be interrupted only when someone feels that they simply must speak. When someone does speak, what they say ...
... Quakers, and from the empire-resisting poem Dante has built partly out of silences and questions, to look at the world we ourselves inhabit, and ask some very general questions: What is our own public speech-world like? What is its ...
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