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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... 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 event that occurred during the writing of this book, recall the ...
... at all. This is an instance of the general truth that in every act of expression the speaker must choose one language or another, and whatever language he chooses to speak will silence other possibilities. 17 SPEECH IN THE EMPIRE.
... truth and love. Perhaps that is after all the best answer possible; or, to put it another way, perhaps the closest the poem comes to a theological answer is no answer at all, again a kind of silence, the invocation of mystery. In this ...
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