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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... requires us all to sup- press. Of course, as Homer also makes clear, it is true that on these dreadful conditions ... require us to reduce other people to objects, to deny their equal claims to a life of meaning and fulfillment. These ...
... requires our constant and unrelenting attention. Learning to understand the empire of force, and how not to respect it, is a task and responsibility for each of us. It is this task that is the subject of this book. Even when I talk ...
... require a book of its own, but I do make this suggestion: that we should start our thinking by assuming that the amendment singles out speech from other forms of conduct for a reason, and that the reason has to do with the extraordinary ...
... requires of both of them an inner as well as outer si- lence. And this silence is not simply empty space or time, an absence of words; it is a state or condition that must be attained, by work and art and discipline, and it must be used ...
... requires us to face the questions what those values are, how they can be expressed, and what our own sense of a “best self” is. The threat is that we shall find that we have no adequate way to imagine the world and ourselves, no way to ...
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