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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... relation between the claim of justice and the claim of meaning, especially in Dante's treatment of Virgil. Chapter Six Silence, Belief, and the Right to Speak Living speech; trivializing and degrading speech; silence and meaning among ...
... 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 and ethical life ...
... relations, children or parents, whose lives were injured, perhaps destroyed, by this violent killing. It is Homer's achievement in the Iliad to bring to our attention where we cannot deny it the recognition of the common humanity of ...
... relations we establish with others, those we talk to and those we talk about. This is what it would mean to “under- stand the empire of force and know how not to respect it.” It is to explore these themes and questions, all of them ...
... relation has he with that other “Dante” who composed this poem? It will turn out that this Dante, our fellow traveler, is among other things himself a ques- tioner, asking of Virgil, and those damned in the Inferno, and later of ...
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