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Living Speech : Resisting the Empire of Force / James Boyd White.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691138374
  • 9781400827534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44
LOC classification:
  • K213 .W495 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Empire of Force and the World of Words -- Chapter One. Speech in the Empire -- Chapter Two. Living Speech and the Mind Behind It -- Chapter Three. The Desire for Meaning -- Chapter Four. Writing That Calls the Reader to Life-or Death -- Chapter Five. Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning -- Chapter Six. Silence, Belief, and the Right to Speak -- Index
Summary: 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 themselves speak? These questions animate James Boyd White's Living Speech, a profound examination of the ethics of human expression--in the law and in the rest of life. Drawing on examples from an unusual range of sources--judicial opinions, children's essays, literature, politics, and the speech-out-of-silence of Quaker worship--White offers a fascinating analysis of the force of our languages. Reminding us that every moment of speech is an occasion for gaining control of what we say and who we are, he shows us that we must practice the art of resisting the forces of inhumanity built into our habits of speech and thought if we are to become more capable of love and justice--in both law and life.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The Empire of Force and the World of Words -- Chapter One. Speech in the Empire -- Chapter Two. Living Speech and the Mind Behind It -- Chapter Three. The Desire for Meaning -- Chapter Four. Writing That Calls the Reader to Life-or Death -- Chapter Five. Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning -- Chapter Six. Silence, Belief, and the Right to Speak -- Index

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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 themselves speak? These questions animate James Boyd White's Living Speech, a profound examination of the ethics of human expression--in the law and in the rest of life. Drawing on examples from an unusual range of sources--judicial opinions, children's essays, literature, politics, and the speech-out-of-silence of Quaker worship--White offers a fascinating analysis of the force of our languages. Reminding us that every moment of speech is an occasion for gaining control of what we say and who we are, he shows us that we must practice the art of resisting the forces of inhumanity built into our habits of speech and thought if we are to become more capable of love and justice--in both law and life.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)