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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... fact the poem's central achievement: to identify and to criticize, indeed to undermine, what Weil calls the empire of force—the ideology, the way of imagining the world and oneself and others within it—that is always present in war and ...
... fact that we had surely killed other people who were having dinner at the restaurant that evening, workers in the kitchen, waiters, passersby, and so on. Their deaths. 2 Compare what Stuart Hood says in his memoir of World War II in ...
... fact—whenever we find ourselves denying each other's full hu- manity in the way we speak and think. For the “force” of the empire of which Weil speaks is not simply mil- itary or physical in nature, but also psychological, emotional ...
... fact necessary to any kind of speech, for without silence the words and phrases and syllables could not be distinguished from each other or from the noise that surrounds them; and silence is especially necessary to significant speech ...
... fact that works as a poetic admission ei- ther that the structure of the universe may not be totally coherent after all or, at least, that it cannot be represented as wholly comprehensible in human language. It would not I think be ...
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