Silence in philosophy, literature, and art / edited by Steven L. Bindeman.

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Other Authors: Bindeman, Steven L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; 308.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.