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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... talks or lectures on each of its chapters , in early and somewhat shorter versions , as follows : chapter 1 was delivered as the inaugural Mellinkoff Lecture at UCLA Law School and published as " Free Speech and Valu- able Speech ...
... talk to your schoolmates , to your teacher , to your employer or employee , to the vendor at the newsstand , and so on , or you will be unable to achieve any of your objectives in life , indeed be unable to formulate objectives in the ...
... talk about ju- dicial opinions, then, I shall accordingly deal very little with arguments about legal doctrine, policy, or rule, for those arguments, and the choices they imply, can be made well and responsibly only if we find ways to ...
... talk to and those we talk about. This is what it would mean to “under- stand the empire of force and know how not to respect it.” It is to explore these themes and questions, all of them prompted by Weil's sentence, that this book is ...
... talk in this way about the character of our verbal world, for it makes me sound like a sourpuss, a repressive spoil- sport, maybe a snob. But I do think we are out of balance. If you are in- clined to resist, let me suggest that you ...
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