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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... looks like external and physical force thus always depends upon—is really a manifestation of—forces at work within the mind and imagination. These forces are as real, and in their own way can be ulti- mately as destructive, as physical ...
... looks quite different , simply the 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 ...
... look like to “recognize the humanity” of an- other person? Such are the questions that animate this book. It is crucial for Weil, and for my purposes here, that the “understand- ing” and “not respecting” of which she speaks are internal ...
... look like ? As a way of elaborating the line of thought suggested by these ques- tions , I examine in what follows certain ways in which people have found it possible to speak in the law , good and bad . I look especially at some ...
... looks, printed on the page, surrounded by an expanse of white—a sort of visual silence that makes the poem itself stand out where it ... look backwards as well as forwards, repeatedly going over in our minds what we have read 14 CHAPTER ONE.
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