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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... tell us what to say and how to say it , what to do and how to do it . Mastery of these systems of meaning is essential to social com- petence : you have to know how to talk to your schoolmates , to your teacher , to your employer or ...
... 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 empires of force al- ready at work in each of us, in the form of ...
... tells us , is to fail to be capable of love and justice , the central ends and fulfillment of human existence . It is a task for a whole life . Her sentence is not a call to quietism or removal from the world . Once we begin to see what ...
... tell us that life, like the straight way, is lost, lost in confusion. The sound connects these words to establish the psy- chological and spiritual starting point of the entire poem. As we read a bit further we see the poem connect ...
... tell us ? He does not tell us who he is ; how the right path was lost ; what the dark woods consist of ; whether this is a dream or an allegory or an invention , or something else ; he does not tell us why he is telling us this story ...
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