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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... actually 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 168 Athenian tragedy and the judicial ...
... actually is.” This struck me powerfully at the time and lives in my mind still. Later in life I happened to spend several years as an active participant in the life of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, whose meetings for worship are ...
... actually to think through the legal problem and express his thought in legal language—to say what he means in the language of the law—but to sound like someone doing those things: to sound like a lawyer, not to be one. The reader of ...
... actually is this “Dante,” the character in the story, and what relation has he with that other “Dante” who composed this poem? It will turn out that this Dante, our fellow traveler, is among other things himself a questioner, asking of ...
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