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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... clichés or slogans . To think of Homer's achievement as the recognition of the hu- manity of both Greek and Trojan is a fine start , but if we were to con- tinue to work with that text we would need to capture and express , so far as we ...
... cliché and instead keep this sentence alive as the complex challenge to the mind and soul that it is. Whether I succeed is another question; what I want to stress here is that the internal aspect of the problem, what might be called the ...
... clichés and received ideas and for- mulas and slogans presented as though they could carry the work of thought and writing, wherever we see a system of thought applied with- out regard to what else can be said. As writers we fall into ...
... cliché or slo- gan after another; that much of it is misleading or dishonest; and that its tendency is to suppress, not stimulate, independence of thought and judgment. This speech does not come from inner silence, and it depends for ...
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