How to do things with silence / Haig Khatchadourian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khatchadourian, Haig, author.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Band 63.

Philosophische Analyse, 2198-2066 ; Band 63 = Philosophical Analysis ; Volume 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence (Philosophy).

Act (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence. The book, as an original contribution to analytical philosophy, should be of interest to philosophers and students.

Contents:

Front matter

Epigraph

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

1. Informal ‘Logic’ and Contextual Meanings of Silence

2. The Logic of Silence cont’d.: “Pragmatics” of Silence

3. Body Language as a Form of Silent Doing

4. Physical Action as a Form of Silent Doing

5. Silence and the Inner Life

6. Silence in the Temporal Arts I: Music

7. Silence in the Temporal Arts II: The Literary Arts

8. Silence in the Visual-Spatial Arts

9. Silence in Nature

10. The Ethics of Silence

11. Ethical Political Social Dimensions of Silence

12. Silence in the Spiritual-Religious Life

13. Symbolic Uses of Silence in the Spiritual/Religious Life – I

14. Symbolic Uses of Silence in the Spiritual/Religious Life – II

Name and Subject index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501501449

1501501445

9781501501463

1501501461

OCLC:

923332759