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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... true even for a person fighting out of deeply felt idealism, on the side of democracy and decency, say, against tyranny and genocide. Think, for example, of the mentality that would make it possible to participate in the firebombing of ...
... true that on these dreadful conditions human beings can be capable of extraordinary virtue and achievement—courage and loyalty and mercy. Homer loves and admires the people of his world, trapped as they are in a system of war. But that ...
... ( 1897 ; reprint , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1956 ) , 43 : “ It is the true pathos of war ; the thing seen on both sides ; the unfathomable suffering for which no one in particular is to blame. . . . [Is] it not a 8 ...
... true of the disposition of many of the souls in each of the realms. Let me stress that this is the poet's doing. We tend to forget it, but it is Dante who presents Paolo and Francesca so sympathetically. He does not just find them in ...
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