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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... judges too, are under even greater temptation and pressure than the rest of us to speak in dead, mechanical, or bureau- cratic ways, and that they should resist these forces strenuously, seeking to attain in their own compositions the ...
... judge or shape but simply to approxi- mate. His effort is not actually to think through the legal problem and express his thought in legal language—to say what he means in the lan- guage of the law—but to sound like someone doing those ...
... Judge of the Universe!—yet at the same time to leave room for the reader; more than leave room, to stimulate and confirm in the reader the capacity to question, to insist; and thus to call into life a capacity in the 21 SPEECH IN THE ...
... , that is, that takes the place of Dante's medieval Christian theology? Does my way of imagining, whatever it is, imply standards by which I can judge myself or another person, standards that will enable me to 24 CHAPTER ONE.
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