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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... possible d'aimer et d'être juste que si l'on connaît l'empire de la force et si l'on sait ne pas le respecter. The translation given above is my own, made after discussions with Alton Becker, David Cur- tis, Anis Memon, Piotr ...
... possible to participate in the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo in World War II. The people one is trying to incinerate—children, old people, tram conductors, electricians, musicians, laborers, factory work- ers, clerks, secretaries ...
... possible, but rather that a necessary cost even of what we denominate a just war is that in it we erase the reality of other human beings and of what we do to them. This is a serious evil; maybe a justified evil, but an evil nonetheless ...
... possible to speak in the law , good and bad . I look especially at some Supreme Court opinions that interpret the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , for here the Court must simultaneously address and exemplify the activity of ...
... possible by the silence. The practices of the Trappists depend upon and make real a sense of the deep value of silence itself, of a life without spoken words; those of the Quakers stress both the value of silence and the value of a ...
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