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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... achieved in the opinion in that case; 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 ...
... pire works and try to achieve possibilities for living speech that will resist the empire of force , in the various guises in which it is at work in our minds and hearts . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks go to many friends for their helpful.
... achieve any of your objectives in life , indeed be unable to formulate objectives in the first place . But mastery of a culture's resources for social interaction , for claiming meaning for ex- perience , is also a kind of submission to ...
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