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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... person and the quality of our larger culture and polity . In our struggles with our lan- guages we define and reveal the nature of our own processes of thought and imagination ; we establish characters for ourselves and relations with ...
... person fighting out of deeply felt idealism, on the side of democracy and decency, say, against tyranny and genocide. Think, for example, of the mentality that would make it possible to participate in the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo ...
... persons was a center of meaning and life; pre- sumably all had friends and relations, children or parents, whose lives ... person cannot make a career with real nobility in the military, for that is surely possible, but rather that a ...
... person who is the object of destruction becomes, as Weil says, a thing in the mind of the other, not a person. But as I have suggested, the empire of force is at work not only in those who are en- gaged in the actual practices of war ...
... 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 activities of the individual mind. There is no ...
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