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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... sense this entire book is an extended essay on the sin- gle sentence that stands as its epigraph, taken from Simone Weil's won- derful essay on the Iliad : “No one can love and be just who does not un- derstand the empire of force and ...
... sense we know all this, of course. But we cannot allow this knowl- edge to be 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 ...
... sense always preparing for the war in which it will at- tain its fullest expression. That is the subject of Weil's essay and of this book. One form this empire takes is the familiar one of which I have been speaking: that of armed men ...
... sense of the world? How can we learn not to respect these things, which are so much part of us? What are we to re- spect? What would it really look like to “recognize the humanity” of an- other person? Such are the questions that ...
... sense a con- tinuation of this introduction, elaborating more fully the questions the rest of the book addresses. Each of the other chapters focuses on a dif- ferent aspect of the problem, in what I intend to be a sensible and pro ...
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