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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... rest of this book to offer. My examples are drawn from law and from various other sources, ranging from the Bible to children's writings to poems by Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams. In each chapter I turn as 11 INTRODUCTION.
... offer us, and a crucial part of it is that we can never be totally sure of our own judgments. As I argue in later ... offers us in the end, then, but a special kind of silence, the silence that follows posed but unanswered questions ...
... offer or have I myself made? What do I have, that is, that takes the place of Dante's medieval Christian theology? Does my way of imagining, whatever it is, imply standards by which I can judge myself or another person, standards that ...
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