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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... turn instead with such questions in. 4 Compare what the Dalai Lama has said about peace : “ Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult , it is the only way . " Foreword ...
Resisting the Empire of Force James Boyd White. with Homer but shall turn instead with such questions in mind to other texts that manifest the problem I am trying to define, from the writing of children to Supreme Court opinions to ...
... of this book to offer. My examples are drawn from law and from various other sources, ranging from the Bible to children's writings to poems by Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. In each chapter I turn as 11 INTRODUCTION.
... turn as well to passages from Dante's Divine Comedy, a poem that perhaps surprisingly seems to have a concern with ... turning them to our purposes, rather than becoming their agents and slaves—which means learning to have confident ...
... turn to Dante's Divine Comedy as a work that addresses, often with astonishing success, certain central questions about language and power. At its heart it is a text that shows us both how to understand, and how not to respect, the ...
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