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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 62
... expression is practically everything , including both the integrity of the individual person and the quality of our larger culture and polity . In our struggles with our lan- guages we define and reveal the nature of our own processes ...
... expression. That is the subject of Weil's essay and of this book. One form this empire takes is the familiar one of which I have been speaking: that of armed men systematically destroying other people, armed and unarmed, and almost of ...
... expressions , in danger of being used as clichés or slogans . To think of Homer's achievement as the recognition of the hu- manity of both Greek and Trojan is a fine start , but if we were to con- tinue to work with that text we would ...
... expression (such as flag waving and marching and danc- ing), how are these words to be given meaning? In this book I do not propose a comprehensive answer to that question, which would require a book of its own, but I do make this ...
... expression, that surround us, that have their life within us; we must think critically about these forces and resources of meaning, which means thinking crit- ically about our own uses of them; and we must learn the art by which we can ...
Contents
1 | |
13 | |
9780691138374_4CH2 | 50 |
9780691138374_5CH3 | 91 |
9780691138374_6CH4 | 124 |
9780691138374_7CH5 | 168 |
9780691138374_8CH6 | 204 |
9780691138374_9IND | 227 |