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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... kind of knowledge is a reader's knowledge— understanding a situation and its meaning; the other is a writer's knowledge—knowing how to use language to create meaning of an appropriate and valuable kind. 2 Compare what Stuart Hood says ...
... kind of attention that will resist the im- pulse we have to reduce language to slogan and cliché and instead keep this sentence alive as the complex challenge to the mind and soul that it is. Whether I succeed is another question; what ...
... kind. This book is not centrally about war, then, or the brutality of the empire in its most florid and fully realized forms, but about the origins and sources of that kind of empire in our own thought and speech. Its real subject is ...
... kind made possible by the silence. The practices of the Trappists depend upon and make real a sense of the deep value of silence itself, of a life without spoken words; those of the Quakers stress both the value of silence and the value ...
... kind of spatial silence can be ob- served on museum walls where pictures are displayed, and we all know that some museums are simply too crowded to permit any picture to be seen, to be heard as it were. Silence is in fact necessary to ...
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