Living speech : resisting the empire of force
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. How are we to assert our humanity and that of others against the forces in the culture and in our own minds that would deny it? What kind of speech should the First Amendment protect? How should judges and justices t
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
9781400827534, 9780691138374, 9781282086869, 9786612086861, 1400827531, 0691138370, 1282086863, 6612086866
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Speech in the empire
Living speech and the mind behind it
The desire for meaning
Writing that calls the reader into life
or death
Human dignity and the claim of meaning
Silence, belief, and the right to speak
English