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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... Speak Living speech; trivializing and degrading speech; silence and meaning among the Quakers; the law as an institution built upon speech that claims meaning for experience; belief beyond language, in life and law; Dante; justice and ...
... speak or write , in any context whatever , we reveal , in the terms suggested by the epigraph from Simone Weil , that we understand ( or do not understand ) and respect ( or do not respect ) what she calls “ the empire of force . " Suc ...
... 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 du Sud (De- cember 1940–January 1941). In French the sentence reads: Il n'est possible d ...
... speak- ing directly to the horrible moment in which Europe and the world found themselves. The Iliad is of course about a stage in the Trojan war, which it describes in great and bloody detail. For Weil, this poem at once pres- ents and ...
... speak is present as well in the psy- chological and political process that leads to war. It is a way of justifying ... (speaking here of a local partisan leader): “Franco, for his part, remembered his father dosed with castor- oil and ...
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