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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... seem to be by nature a primary agent of the em- pire of force, a crucial instrument through which that empire works in the world to organize brute power - guns , and. is to blame. . . . [Is] it not a marvel of the sympathetic imagination ...
... seems to almost everyone plainly impossible , since there are well - established crimes that can be committed by words alone , such as conspiracy , aiding and abetting , and incitement , and many forms of speech are traditionally the ...
... 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 and non- legal ...
... seem to come not from the familiar part of the mind that is full of tags of remembered speech and gesture, rote pieces of speech that we assemble without thinking, but from some deep place within the self—silent, below the words, a ...
... seem on the surface to accept and promote. Here is the famous opening of Dante's Inferno: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita. (I, 1–3) Or, much more flatly: “In the ...
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