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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... engaged in war, whether as a soldier or as a civilian cheering on the troops. It would not be endurable. And the dehumanization of which I speak is present as well in the psy- chological and political process that leads to war. It is a ...
... engaged with this poem, one of which is surely: Who actu- ally 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 ...
... engaged with another, facing the great question of the meaning of this or that human life, of human life itself. That there is no system- atic structure of thought that can automatically meet the responsibilities it defines, that the ...
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