The instrumentality of language is relevant not only to the way one thinks and speaks but also, and more importantly, to how one lives – and is allowed to live. The specificity of how one lives is not easily captured by using different words. What, I think, is missing in our discussion is something that Freud taught us long ago: the unequal access that we human beings have to our language and to the reasons we devise for deceiving ourselves. These are not easily apparent to us precisely because of how our thoughts about our past enter the life we live. There are no
Wow. Asad looks like Hauerwas. Or Hauerwas looks like Asad.
Where is the text you are referring to?
Hmmm...what would it look like for the state to teach us how to befriend one another?