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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... perhaps, or as the locals if we were traveling abroad, or even as neighbors and friends if one of us came to live in the other's country. It is through the operation of the military draft, or the work of war fever and propaganda, or by ...
... Perhaps it is necessary, if the war is nec- essary, but it is always present, as an ineluctable cost of the activity. To take an event that occurred during the writing of this book, recall the American effort to kill Iraq's Saddam ...
... perhaps destroyed, by this violent killing. It is Homer's achievement in the Iliad to bring to our attention where we cannot deny it the recognition of the common humanity of people on both sides of a war, a recognition that the very ...
... perhaps nowhere more obviously than in the law, where public power is given shape and reality in language. At first the law may seem to be by nature a primary agent of the em- pire of force, a crucial instrument through which that ...
... perhaps surprisingly seems to have a concern with the empire of force close to its center. I should also say that because each chapter addresses living speech in each of the contexts mentioned above, and in doing so calls on both legal ...
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