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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... ourselves and relations with others ; we act upon the materials of meaning that define our culture , sometimes replicating them , sometimes transforming them , for good or ill . The activity of expression is the heart of intellectual ...
... ourselves are to realize our own best capacities of mind and feeling. My question is not whether this or that particular war is justified, given the attitudes and arrangements of power that led to it and to the situation in which it ...
... ourselves to this activity, and necessarily engaging in our own ways of constructing those on the other side as things or animals or monsters, not people. Be- yond even that, both for Weil and for the purposes of this book, the em- pire ...
... ourselves more nearly capable of love and justice . The second line of thought concerns the law made under the First Amendment , largely by the Supreme Court , and concerns in particular the way the Court defines and thinks about the ...
... ourselves against the ap- peal of the first kind of speech and resist our own desires to use and sub- mit to it? Can we ourselves attain speech of the second kind—speech that comes from the center of the person, and is addressed to the ...
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