Watch Your Words: A Manifesto for the Arts of Speech

Author:   Gerald Garutti ,  Raymond Geuss
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781509567294


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 February 2025
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Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people even speaking to each other? We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been so debased. We live in a world full of empty, degraded, and potentially violent speech: a daily reality that confronts us in the workplace, in the media, on the streets, on the internet, and in our political lives. Verbal clashes are commonplace, while proper dialogue is rare. Gérald Garutti pushes for a return to a more constructive and responsible form of speech. He lays the groundwork for a humanistic approach: one which, contrary to the dominant culture of ignoring and humiliating others, emphasizes listening to them and mastering speech as a way of connecting. The arts of speech can contribute to the reconciliation of tensions in our society and to the realization of our full humanity. Watch Your Words is a stunning manifesto for anyone interested in how we might better communicate with each other.

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Author:   Gerald Garutti ,  Raymond Geuss
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781509567294


ISBN 10:   1509567291
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 February 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Raymond Geuss PART I The Diminution of our Humanity The Radical Degradation of Speech 1 Watch how you speak 2 The Other does not exist 3 Subject not at home PART II For a humanism of speech 4 We need to stand up in the full sense for what we say 5 Elevating speech PART III Humanity lost, humanity regained Speech Elevated 6 The seven arts of speech. Cultivating our humanity 7 The Centre for the arts of speech Notes

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""With compelling argumentative force, Garutti’s Watch Your Words presents a resolute call for a new appreciation of the arts of speech as the central civic leverage point for emancipatory action. This manifesto explores both the foundational role of the word for the politics of social, political, and economic relations and how to reimagine those relationships in a world increasingly influenced by the internet’s logorrheic deluge. Impeccably translated by Raymond Geuss, Garutti’s manifesto has already led to the founding of the Centre for the Arts of Speech in Paris."" Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto ""Beginning with the simplest of propositions, “we must value speech properly”, Garutti tears into linguistic degradation in our time with depth, comprehensiveness, and knife-like clarity. His plea for linguistic restitution as an “ethics of reciprocity” is equally simple, well articulated, and urgent. Translated by Raymond Geuss, who places the book within the genre of the manifesto, Watch Your Words is a must-read which should be widely discussed."" Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan ""A passionate and timely plea to restore dignity and value to human speech. Reminding us that we are what we say, Garutti’s manifesto is in fact a practical guide to what Michel Foucault once praised as “the courage of the truth” made manifest in speech, action, and life."" James I. Porter, University of California, Berkeley


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Gérald Garutti is a distinguished author, theatrical director (of plays in English and in French), lecturer (at Sciences Po in Paris), and commentator. He is founder and director of the Centre for the Arts of Speech, which provides a politically aware and aesthetically sensitive institutional space within which all the various arts of speech – eloquence, debate, narration, drama – can be cultivated in the context of commitment to their humanistic integration.

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