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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... 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 General Hooker . Chapter Two Living Speech and the Mind ...
... just like those used to advertise commercial products on television . These systems of thought and imagination — in which all of us participate ― tend to erase the reality and humanity of other people, and in doing 6 INTRODUCTION.
... 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 General Hooker. One day when I was a teenager I read about the ...
... Advertising It seems obvious that our world of public speech is very different indeed from the silences of the Trappists in their monastery, of the Quakers at their Meeting, or of Dante's great poem. While we each enjoy personal islands ...
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