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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... individual person and the quality of our larger culture and polity . In our struggles with our lan- guages we define and reveal the nature of our own processes of thought and imagination ; we establish characters for ourselves and ...
... individual or the community ; our repeated insistence on an inherent difference between " us " and those " others " who are different , across a wide range of familiar contexts ; and , to take an issue of special interest to me and to ...
... individual mind. There is no adequate solution to the problem she identifies to be found in national policy, international law, programs or principles adopted by the National Council of Churches, philosophical systems, codes of conduct ...
... individuals is difficult , it is the only way . " Foreword to Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step ( New York : Bantam , 1991 ) , vii . 5 For an extended reading of the Iliad with such an object in mind , much influenced by Weil's ...
... individual mind and of individual life . But is that right ? It can obviously be these things , but is the law inherently an instrument of the empire of force ? Or can it be not the servant of the em- pire but something of a ...
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