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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... 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 meaning that define our culture , sometimes replicating them ...
... defined by a set of images and gestures , slogans and sound bites , just like those used to advertise commercial products on television . These systems of thought and imagination — in which all of us participate ― tend to erase the ...
... define, from the writing of children to Supreme Court opinions to Dante's Divine Comedy. All of this work can be seen as a way of trying to give deeper content to the terms—“dehumanization,” “full humanity,” “empire of force”—that I am ...
... defined , and the forces that op- pose them be contested ? If so , what would that contest look like ? As a way of ... defines and thinks about the kind of speech the amendment protects . Should the constitutional phrase " freedom of ...
... defined and given meaning. It cannot I think be done by a stipulative or purely conceptional definition—by the elabora- tion or substitution of terms—but only by the experience of particular examples and reflection upon them, which is ...
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