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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... interest in what is at stake— intellectually , ethically , politically - when the human mind meets and tries to use the languages that surround it , in the law and elsewhere : languages that are made by others , that are full of ...
... interest in “loving and be- ing just” as obvious goals of any 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 ...
... interests me in this book is not so much the phenomenon of war itself as what lies behind war, and behind not only war but all the forms of power that enable or require us to reduce other people to objects, to deny their equal claims to ...
... interest to me and to this book , our ways of thinking of our political leaders , not as people whom we can expect to speak to us in a genuine way about our nation's life and the problems that confront it , but as figures defined by a ...
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