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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... brings the reader to see, the equal value and humanity of Greek and Trojan, of the human beings on both sides of this war. That is in fact the poem's central achievement: to identify and to criticize, indeed to undermine, what Weil ...
... bring to our attention where we cannot deny it the recognition of the common humanity of people on both sides of a war, a recognition that the very activity of war requires us all to sup- press. Of course, as Homer also makes clear, it ...
... bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult , it is the only way . " Foreword to Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step ( New York : Bantam , 1991 ) , vii . 5 For an extended reading of the ...
... bringing them to bear upon it. This is an inherent part of the process by which we attend to what we read or hear. As we read we think we know what is coming next, though we are not sure; when it does come, it either confirms our ...
... bring our dissatisfactions back to the text we sometimes find material for explanation and response, never articulated as such, that will carry us to a somewhat more satisfac- tory position than any explicitly stated there. For example ...
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