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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... give deeper content to the terms—“dehumanization,” “full humanity,” “empire of force”—that I am using to frame the investigation. Or, to put it another way, my object is to give the sentence from Weil the kind of attention that will ...
... gives space for reflection. Silence is a crucial element of speech in another way, for at least some utterances carry with them the shadows of other things: things that are not said but assumed, and which we must reconstruct or intuit ...
... gives life to this text , and to us as we read it . Let us now look at these three lines as a story . What does the narrator of the poem not tell us ? He does not tell us who he is ; how the right path was lost ; what the dark woods ...
... give up . I think we are to read her as being unaware of these significances . For more on Francesca , see chapter 2 . 4 My translation fails to capture the crucial tension created by the fact that in Dante's Italian , virtù and virtute ...
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