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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... attention where we cannot deny it the recognition of the common humanity of people on both sides of a war, a recognition that the very activity of war requires us all to sup- press. Of course, as Homer also makes clear, it is true that ...
... attention to their larger meaning for the individual or the community ; our repeated insistence on an inherent difference between " us " and those " others " who are different , across a wide range of familiar contexts ; and , to take ...
... attention that will resist the im- pulse we have to reduce language to slogan and cliché and instead keep this sentence alive as the complex challenge to the mind and soul that it is. Whether I succeed is another question; what I want ...
... attention, of a kind made possible by the silence. The practices of the Trappists depend upon and make real a sense of the deep value of silence itself, of a life without spoken words; those of the Quakers stress both the value of ...
... attention and promises to reward it—for it is silence that makes attention possible and gives space for reflection. Silence is a crucial element of speech in another way, for at least some utterances carry with them the shadows of other ...
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