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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... soul-destroying conditions and ultimately to affirm her connection with the victims of war by refusing to eat more than she would have had in a concentration camp, a practice that led to her early death. That was the course she set for ...
... soul that it is. Whether I succeed is another question; what I want to stress here is that the internal aspect of the problem, what might be called the literary as- pect, is permanently with us, present in my own use of language and ...
... souls should drift emptily in the dark, for ever and ever? To think that this is right or just is nearly impos- sible ... soul, in each of the three realms, made perfect sense to you. You would have no objections, for the judgments would ...
... . For example, on reflection we discover that no one consigned to the Inferno seems to see that what he or she did was wrong and to repent it. In the implied theological nar- rative the soul is being punished for what it did 22 CHAPTER ONE.
Resisting the Empire of Force James Boyd White. rative the soul is being punished for what it did , and who it was , before its human death , and it is now assumed to be totally incapable of repen- tance or any other change ; but in a ...
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