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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... culture and polity . In our struggles with our lan- guages we define and reveal the nature of our own processes of thought and imagination ; we establish characters for ourselves and relations with others ; we act upon the materials of ...
... culture working itself out in our imaginations and our hearts . Each of us grows up surrounded by languages , codes , man- ners , expectations — ways of imagining the world and oneself and others within it — that tell us what to say and ...
... culture of war presented in that poem, but of forces at work every culture, every human society, every human life. The empire of force lives within us, each of us. KNOWING AND NOT RESPECTING THE EMPIRE OF FORCE AS A PROBLEM OF WRITING ...
... Cultural Criticism and the Ideal of Friendship in the Iliad , ” in When Words Lose Their Meaning ( Chicago : Uni- versity of Chicago Press , 1984 ) , chapter 2. For an earlier articulation of a similar basic in- sight about Homer's ...
... culture and politics . In writing in the speech of Tuscany he helped to create what we know as modern Europe . His ambition is to do for Italian what his guide and model , Virgil , did for Latin , namely to demonstrate its full ...
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