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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... suggested by the epigraph from Simone Weil , that we understand ( or do not understand ) and respect ( or do not respect ) what she calls “ the empire of force . " Suc- ceeding chapters will deal with various aspects of what happens ...
... suggested, the empire of force is at work not only in those who are en- gaged in the actual practices of war, but in others as well. Behind the men and women at the front are other people, all of us, committing ourselves to this ...
... suggests one place we might begin in shaping our own lives, telling us that the essential thing is to “under- stand” the empire of force and “know how not to respect” it. Yet how are we possibly to do this? How can we recognize the ...
... suggested by these ques- tions , I examine in what follows certain ways in which people have found it possible to speak in the law , good and bad . I look especially at some Supreme Court opinions that interpret the First Amendment to ...
... suggested: “Perhaps a life of silence would teach us how pointless and empty almost everything we say actually is.” This struck me powerfully at the time and lives in my mind still. Later in life I happened to spend several years as an ...
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