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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... thing always; the conversation with the reader in William Carlos Williams's, “This Is Just To Say”; the possibilities for meaning presented by the facts of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition; the meaning actually achieved in the opinion ...
... things—all show up constantly in our uses of language, in what we confirm and what we resist, in what we reveal and what we hide, as we speak and write. THE EMPIRE OF FORCE AS WAR Weil wrote her essay. 1 Simone Weil, “L'Iliade, ou le ...
... things or animals or monsters, not people. Be- yond even that, both for Weil and for the purposes of this book, the em- pire exists in other forms, in ordinary life and politics, throughout our lives in fact—whenever we find ourselves ...
... things, which are so much part of us? What are we to re- spect? What would it really look like to “recognize the humanity” of an- other person? Such are the questions that animate this book. It is crucial for Weil, and for my purposes ...
... things are . For when we explain and justify what we think , and what we do , we shall still be working with ... thing seen on both sides ; the unfathomable suffering for which no one in particular is to blame. . . . [Is] it not a 8 ...
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