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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... Language. 2. Judgments—United States—Language. 3. Violence in literature. 4. Violence. I. Title. K213 .W495 2006 306. 44—dc22 2005032670 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon ...
... upon speech that claims meaning for experience; belief beyond language, in life and law; Dante; justice and love; Simone Weil. Index 124 168 204 227 Preface A THIS BOOK DERIVES from a long - standing x TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... language, in what we confirm and what we resist, in what we reveal and what we hide, as we speak and write. THE EMPIRE OF FORCE AS WAR Weil wrote her essay. 1 Simone Weil, “L'Iliade, ou le poème de la force,” first published in Cahiers ...
... languages , codes , man- ners , expectations — ways of imagining the world and oneself and others within it — that tell ... language of race , from which none of us in this country can escape , is its own version of the em- pire of force ...
... language , language will still be working with us , and our own for- mulations can quickly become the language of another empire , full of slogans , sentimentalities , falsities , and denials , of trivializations and de- humanizations ...
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