Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 pages 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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... Dante's Divine Comedy ; our world of public speech ; advertising and propaganda ; the “ marketplace of ideas " ; Robert Frost's " The Road Not Taken ” ; Frankfurter and Jackson in the flag salute case ; Abraham Lincoln's letter to ...
... Dante's Guido da Montefeltro as a legal thinker; the opinion of Brandeis in Whitney v. California. Chapter Five Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning Athenian tragedy and the judicial opinion compared; Aeschylus, The Oresteia and The ...
... Dante are taken from Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy , ed . and trans . Charles Singleton ( Princeton , N.J .: Princeton Uni- versity Press , 1970 [ Inferno ] , 1970 [ Purgatorio ] , 1975 [ Paradiso ] ) . In reproducing passages ...
... Dante's Divine Comedy. All of this work can be seen as a way of trying to give deeper content to the terms—“dehumanization,” “full humanity,” “empire of force”—that I am using to frame the investigation. Or, to put it another way, my ...
... Dante's Divine Comedy, a poem that perhaps surprisingly 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 ...
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