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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... poem Homer sees, and brings the reader to see, the equal value and humanity of Greek and Trojan, of the human beings on both sides of this war. That is in fact the poem's central achievement: to identify and to criticize, indeed to ...
... poem can wholly see or act upon, the common hu- manity of Greek and Trojan. All this is not necessarily to say that war is always wrong—though that is what some people may conclude—or that a good person cannot make a career with real ...
... poem, but of forces at work every culture, every human society, every human life. The empire of force lives within us, each of us. KNOWING AND NOT RESPECTING THE EMPIRE OF FORCE AS A PROBLEM OF WRITING How are we to respond to the ...
... 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.
... poem 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 ...
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