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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... particular ways of imagining the world—describing it, judging it—and that carry deep within them the habits of mind, the values, of the world in which they are made. What I think is at stake at such moments of expression is practically ...
... particular war is justified, given the attitudes and arrangements of power that led to it and to the situation in which it breaks out, but what is to be done about those attitudes and arrangements and situations in the first place—about ...
... (1897; reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 43: “It is the true pathos of war; the thing seen on both sides; the unfathomable suffering for which no one in particular is to blame. . . . [Is] it not a 8 INTRODUCTION.
... particular the way the Court defines and thinks about the kind of speech the amendment protects. Should the constitutional phrase “freedom of speech” include all acts of verbal expression? That construction seems to almost everyone ...
... particular examples and reflection upon them, which is what I intend the rest of this book to offer. My examples are drawn from law and from various other sources, ranging from the Bible to children's writings to poems by Robert Frost ...
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