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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... question whether we shall find ways to insist upon our own freedom and responsibility in a world of constraint , to respect the humanity and reality of other people and their experience , and to contribute to the formation of a culture ...
... question whether we had succeeded in killing him. I saw no reflection of the fact that we had surely killed other people who were having dinner at the restaurant that evening, workers in the kitchen, waiters, passersby, and so on. Their ...
... question is not whether this or that particular war is justified, given the attitudes and arrangements of power that led to it and to the situation in which it breaks out, but what is to be done about those attitudes and arrangements ...
... question, leading her to work in factories under soul-destroying conditions and ultimately to affirm her connection ... questions that animate this book. It is crucial for Weil, and for my purposes here, that the “understand- ing” and ...
... questions in mind to other texts that manifest the problem I am trying to define, from the writing of children to ... question; what I want to stress here is that the internal aspect of the problem, what might be called the literary ...
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