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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... built upon speech that claims meaning for experience; belief beyond language, in life and law; Dante; justice and love; Simone Weil. Index 124 168 204 227 Preface A THIS BOOK DERIVES from a long - standing x TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... experience , and to contribute to the formation of a culture and a polity that will enhance human dignity — or whether we shall instead lead lives imprisoned in dead modes of thought and expres- sion that deny the value of ourselves and ...
... experience triumph when you succeed, as does the soldier you oppose. Yet whenever anyone dies, on whichever side, a world of possibility dies with him or her, a web of rela- tionships of caring and concern. A part of the fabric of ...
... experience of particular examples and reflection upon them, which is what I intend the rest of this book to offer. My examples are drawn from law and from various other sources, ranging from the Bible to children's writings to poems by ...
... experience in reading it; and how that experience puts into question the various empires of force that Dante may seem on the surface to accept and promote. Here is the famous opening of Dante's Inferno: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra ...
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