9780898703627-089870362X-Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power

ISBN-13: 9780898703627
ISBN-10: 089870362X
Edition: First American Edition
Author: Josef Pieper
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Format: Paperback 54 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780898703627
ISBN-10: 089870362X
Edition: First American Edition
Author: Josef Pieper
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Format: Paperback 54 pages

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Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power (ISBN-13: 9780898703627 and ISBN-10: 089870362X), written by authors Josef Pieper, was published by Ignatius Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Words, Language & Grammar , Philosophy, Religious Studies, Logic & Language, Philosophy, Social Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.88.

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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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