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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... present in war and required by it, but present also in our lives whenever people deny the humanity of others whom they destroy, manipulate, or exploit. What Weil says about war is undeniably the case. If one is not a psy- chopath, one ...
... present and active when we are engaged in war, whether as a soldier or as a civilian cheering on the troops. It would not be endurable. And the dehumanization of which I speak is present as well in the psy- chological and political ...
... present in my own use of language and yours, all the time—including in this book, this paragraph—and requires our constant and unrelenting attention. Learning to understand the empire of force, and how not to respect it, is a task and ...
... present in our thought and speech , and learn how to resist its power by refusing to re- spect it ? The goal , as Weil suggests , would be to render ourselves more nearly capable of love and justice . The second line of thought concerns ...
... present the question how the phrase “living speech” is to be defined and given meaning. It cannot I think be done by a stipulative or purely conceptional definition—by the elabora- tion or substitution of terms—but only by the ...
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