| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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 t. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Language.
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Law -- Language. |
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Judgments -- United States -- Language.
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Judgments. |
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United States. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
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Violence.
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Violence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Title |
Resisting the empire of force |
| Other Form: |
Print version: White, James Boyd, 1938- Living speech. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005032670 |
| ISBN |
9781400827534 (electronic book) |
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1400827531 (electronic book) |
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0691138370 |
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9780691138374 |
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9780691138374 |
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0691125805 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691125800 |
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