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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... shape our sense of the world? How can we learn not to respect these things, which are so much part of us? What are we to re- spect? What would it really look like to “recognize the humanity” of an- other person? Such are the questions ...
Resisting the Empire of Force James Boyd White. languages , that shape our world : our effort to learn to understand the empire of force and how not to respect it.4 To fail in this endeavor , she tells us , is to fail to be capable of ...
... shape and reality in language. At first the law may 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 ...
... shape but simply to approxi- mate. His effort is not actually to think through the legal problem and express his thought in legal language—to say what he means in the lan- guage of the law—but to sound like someone doing those things ...
... shape our experience in reading it; and how that experience puts into question the various empires of force that Dante may seem on the surface to accept and promote. Here is the famous opening of Dante's Inferno: Nel mezzo del cammin di ...
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