Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
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Publisher : Ignatius Press
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 089870362X
ISBN-13 : 9780898703627
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Book Synopsis Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power by : Josef Pieper

Download or read book Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power written by Josef Pieper and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends. Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque. Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation. We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work.


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