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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... show how it is that whenever we speak or write , in any context whatever , we reveal , in the terms suggested by the epigraph from Simone Weil , that we understand ( or do not understand ) and respect ( or do not respect ) what she ...
... show up constantly in our uses of language, in what we confirm and what we resist, in what we reveal and what we hide, as we speak and write. THE EMPIRE OF FORCE AS WAR Weil wrote her essay. 1 Simone Weil, “L'Iliade, ou le poème de la ...
... shows that for Homer, and for us, the dehumaniza- tion of others is an inherent psychological cost of war, a denial of truth that corrodes the mind and will. Perhaps it is necessary, if the war is nec- essary, but it is always present ...
... shows us both how to understand, and how not to respect, the empire of force. This may be at first a surprising claim: after all, Dante's plainly stated political position is in favor of a vigorous and powerful empire; and in the course ...
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