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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... 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 ; Abraham's argument with ...
... nature of our own processes of thought and imagination ; we establish characters for ourselves and relations with others ; we act upon the materials of meaning that define our culture , sometimes replicating them , sometimes ...
... nature, but also psychological, emotional, and ideo- logical. Though power may come from the barrel of a gun, as Chairman Mao once said, it is a real power only by virtue of the understandings among people that make the guns and bombs ...
... nature a primary agent of the em- pire of force, a crucial instrument through which that empire works in the world to organize brute power - guns , and. is to blame. . . . [Is] it not a marvel of the sympathetic imagination which makes ...
... nature. We come back again and again, from different starting points, to the same central questions, in the process transforming our sense of what they mean. CHAPTER ONE CD Speech in the Empire Silence; valuable speech; 12 INTRODUCTION.
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