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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... important help in preparing the manuscript . In the process of composing this book over several years , I have given talks or lectures on each of its chapters , in early and somewhat shorter versions , as follows : chapter 1 was ...
... iMPoRTANT sense this entire book is an extended essay on the sin- gle sentence that stands as its epigraph, taken from Simone Weil's won- derful essay on the Iliad : “No one can love and be just who does not un- derstand the empire of ...
... it could not bear the attention that such silence would invite. And it is not neutral in its effects—not mere noise or chatter—but trivializing, dehumanizing, and demeaning. To consider the most important case: When 26 CHAPTER ONE.
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