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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... political dimension too , for there is always the question whether we shall find ways to insist upon our own freedom and responsibility in a world of constraint , to respect the humanity and reality of other people and their experience ...
... as neighbors and friends if one of us came to live in the other's country. It is through the operation of the military draft, or the work of war fever and propaganda, or by some deep political failure on one side 2 INTRODUCTION.
... political process that leads to war. It is a way of justifying war: you begin to paint “them” as monstrous, superstitious, barbarian, ignorant, savage, inhuman, and then you can go to war against them.2 Think of the Serbians who were ...
... politics, throughout our lives in fact—whenever we find ourselves denying each other's full hu- manity in the way we speak and think. For the “force” of the empire of which Weil speaks is not simply mil- itary or physical in nature, but ...
... 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 set of images and gestures , slogans and sound bites , just ...
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