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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... reader in making meaning ; the note on the icebox ; the statute ; Frost's " Road Not Taken ” again ; three forms of the desire for meaning ; Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ; the judicial opinion ; desires not for meaning but for use ...
Resisting the Empire of Force James Boyd White. Chapter Four Writing That Calls the Reader to Life—or Death Plato's Phaedrus, on not saying the same thing always; the conversation with the reader in William Carlos Williams's, “This Is ...
... Reader, ed. George A. Panichas (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.: Moyer Bell, 1977), 153, with the quotation appear- ing at page 181 and rendered into English as follows: “Only he who knows the empire of might and how not to respect it is capable of ...
... reader to see, the equal value and humanity of Greek and Trojan, of the human beings on both sides of this war. That is in fact the poem's central achievement: to identify and to criticize, indeed to undermine, what Weil calls the ...
... like a lawyer, not to be one. The reader of such a brief is offered not the work of a mind with which he or she can engage, but something very different, a stitching together of phrases and formulas, none 15 SPEECH IN THE EMPIRE.
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