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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... Mind Behind It " Nature in her full glory " ; the writing of children ; Polonius ' speech to Laertes ; Francesca's story of her life in Dante's Commedia ; John Ashcroft on military tribunals ; the teaching of writing in college ...
... 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 commitments to particular ways of imagining the world — describing it , judging it — and that ...
... mind and will. Perhaps it is necessary, if the war is nec- essary, but it is always present, as an ineluctable cost of the activity. To take an event that occurred during the writing of this book, recall the American effort to kill ...
... MIND What 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 ...
... mind and imagination. These forces are as real, and in their own way can be ulti- mately as destructive, as physical power. This means that the empire of force has presence and power in the minds of each of its agents and ser- vants and ...
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