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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... Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning Athenian tragedy and the judicial opinion compared; Aeschylus, The Oresteia and The Persians; Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus and the Ajax; Justice Harlan in Cohen v. California; the relation between ...
... humanity and reality of other people and their experience , and to contribute to the formation of a culture and a polity that will enhance human dignity — or whether we shall instead lead lives imprisoned in dead modes of thought and ...
... Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning , " Journal of Supreme Court History 27 ( 2002 ) : 45. I am most grateful to the publishers named for their permission to use these talks and lectures as the basis for the chap- ters of this book ...
... human life worthy of the name and emphasizes by its placement at the end the psychological, literary, and social act of “not respecting”; that it avoids the formality and abstractness of the more literal translation, which tends to ...
... humanity of Greek and Trojan, of the human beings on both sides of this war. That is in fact the poem's central achievement: to identify and to criticize, indeed to undermine, what Weil calls the empire of force—the ideology, the way of ...
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