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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... action. These can of course all be good things or bad; but for us as individual people the only real remedy, and it is necessarily imperfect, lies in our own struggle to come to terms with the systems of meaning, with the languages ...
... action , our contributions of money and time and energy . But — and this is crucial to the power and meaning of her sentence — the problem she identifies does not go away when we act on the side of the poor and the oppressed , when we ...
... action , such as defamation , copyright violation , and the like . It is almost impossible to think that the First Amendment should invalidate these well - established bodies of law . 6 The amendment reads in part : “ Congress shall ...
... action. Not that our first instinct is always to be taken as right: as fallen crea- tures, our first response is often wrong, as we shall see those of Dante the character to be too. Like him, we are in need of education, an educa- tion ...
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