Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 9 Φεβ 2009 - 256 σελίδες 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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... characters for ourselves and relations with others ; we act upon the materials of meaning that define our culture , sometimes replicating them , sometimes transforming them , for good or ill . The activity of expression is the heart of ...
... characters, at rare moments of understanding and feeling; but it is overcome constantly in his text, which recognizes and never forgets what no one in the poem can wholly see or act upon, the common hu- manity of Greek and Trojan. All ...
... characters? Simone Weil's own life was a constant struggle to find an answer to that question, leading her to work in factories under soul-destroying conditions and ultimately to affirm her connection with the victims of war by refusing ...
... character in a novel , say — telling us about his prior history and education , his social location , his qualities of mind and aspiration , the special sense in which he is lost ― for at the mo- ment he is speaking for us as well as ...
... character in the story, and what relation has he with that other “Dante” who composed this poem? It will turn out that this Dante, our fellow traveler, is among other things himself a ques- tioner, asking of Virgil, and those damned in ...
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