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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... tion of others is an inherent psychological cost of war, a denial of truth that corrodes the mind and will. Perhaps it is necessary, if the war is nec- essary, but it is always present, as an ineluctable cost of the activity. To take an ...
... tion in so doing. Each person who is the object of destruction becomes, as Weil says, a thing in the mind of the other, not a person. But as I have suggested, the empire of force is at work not only in those who are en- gaged in the ...
... tion or substitution of terms—but only by the experience of particular examples and reflection upon them, which is what I intend the rest of this book to offer. My examples are drawn from law and from various other sources, ranging from ...
... tion. It is not against the intention of the poem but in accordance with it that you as a reader experience the resistance I describe. To put it another way: one central function of the poem, a central part of its meaning, is to ...
... tion the poem itself will offer us, and a crucial part of it is that we can never be totally sure of our own judgments. As I argue in later chapters, we are forced upon our own resources, then challenged, then forced upon our own ...
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