Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 09/02/2009 - 256 من الصفحات 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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... activity of expression is the heart of intellectual and ethical life . It has an inherent public and political ... activities of life we share . In the introduction I try to show how it is that whenever we speak or write , in any context ...
... activity. To take an event that occurred during the writing of this book, recall the American effort to kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein by bombing a restaurant in which he was thought to be dining. In the reports I read of this event, the ...
... activity of war requires us all to sup- press. Of course, as Homer also makes clear, it is true that on these dreadful conditions human beings can be capable of extraordinary virtue and achievement—courage and loyalty and mercy. Homer ...
... activity, and necessarily engaging in our own ways of constructing those on the other side as things or animals or monsters, not people. Be- yond even that, both for Weil and for the purposes of this book, the em- pire exists in other ...
... activities of the individual mind. There is no adequate solution to the problem she identifies to be found in national policy, international law, programs or principles adopted by the National Council of Churches, philosophical systems ...
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