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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... course about a stage in the Trojan war, which it describes in great and bloody detail. For Weil, this poem at once pres- ents and criticizes the practice of dehumanization that is an inseparable part not only of a war between peoples ...
... course. But we cannot allow this knowl- edge to be present and active when we are engaged in war, whether as a soldier or as a civilian cheering on the troops. It would not be endurable. And the dehumanization of which I speak is ...
... course, as Homer also makes clear, it is true that on these dreadful conditions human beings can be capable of extraordinary virtue and achievement—courage and loyalty and mercy. Homer loves and admires the people of his world, trapped ...
... course she set for herself. In the sentence I have quoted she suggests one place we might begin in shaping our own lives, telling us that the essential thing is to “under- stand” the empire of force and “know how not to respect” it. Yet ...
... course try to find ways to resist it in our con- duct : in our voting , our political and social action , our contributions of money and time and energy . But — and this is crucial to the power and meaning of her sentence — the problem ...
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