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Silence in philosophy, literature, and art /

Silence exists at the edge of the world, where words break off and meaning fades into ambiguity. The numerous treatments of silence in Steven L. Bindeman's Silence in Philosophy, Literature, and Art question the misleading clarity of certainty, which persists in the unreflective discourse of co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bindeman, Steven L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; 308.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Silence in Philosophy, Literature, and Art; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Introductory Remarks; Silence as Indirect Discourse; 2 Phenomenology and Silence; A Phenomenological Approach to Silence; Silence and the Origin of Language; 3 Silence and Art; Mallarmé, Andreiyeff, and the Silence of Empty Spaces; John Cage and Silence; Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence; 4 Music and Silence; Three Musical Interpretations of Silence after Cage; Silence and Music Theory; Making Music (and Silence) Together; 5 Silence and Theological Matters; Silence and God.
  • Kierkegaard and SilenceHolding Chaos at Bay; 6 Silence and Creativity; Silence and the Creative Process; Repetition as a Creative Form of Silence; Bachelard and the Metaphysics of the Moment; Silence and Negative Space; 7 Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Silence; The Flesh of the World; The Lived Body; Merleau-Ponty on Cézanne and Klee; 8 Silence and Spirituality; Ad Reinhardt's Black Paintings; Nagarjuna's Doctrine of Emptiness; Derrida's Deconstruction of Metaphysics; The Contrasting Roles for Silence in Nagarjuna and Derrida; 9 Wittgenstein and Silence; Rules of Grammar; Seeing vs. Seeing As.
  • Meaning vs. IntendingOn Knowledge and Certainty; Describing Silence; 10 Giacometti's Repetitious Art; Subtractive Acts; Capturing the Mystery; 11 Borges and Silence; "The Writing of the God": Borges and Wittgenstein; Seeing the World sub specie aeterni; 12 Heidegger and Silence; Dasein's Experience of Unhiddenness; Art and Thinking; The Breakdown of Language; Keeping Silent; 13 Beckett and Silence; Beckett's Disruptive Nihilism; Husserl and Beckett; Bataille and Blanchot on Beckett and Silence; 14 Kafka's Appropriation of Silence; Kafka's Uses of Silence; Blanchot on Kafka's Silence.
  • 15 Silence and the HolocaustWiesel; Adorno; Celan; Heidegger's Silence Concerning the Holocaust; 16 Blanchot's Absorption in Silence; Blanchot's Immemorial Silence; Blanchot on the Silence of Mallarmé; Blanchot on Celan's Poetics of Silence; 17 Foucault on Silence as Discourse; Silence as a Form of Oppression; A Feminist Perspective on Ideological Silence; Foucault's Archaeological Investigation; 18 Concluding Remarks; Silence and the Limits of Language; Silence and the Limits of Conscious Intention; The Spiritual Force of Silence in Art and Psychology.
  • Discourse and the Construction of Meaning through SilenceSilence and the Unspeakable; The Dialogue of Speech and Silence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.