Telling Silence

Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences

Charles E. Scott

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781438495187, 9781438495194
• eBook ISBN: 9781438495200
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences' happening.

In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dimension of lives, both human and nonhuman. Attunements with silence enable attunements with being alive in the fragility that invests even the strengths of living beings. Telling Silence performs this attunement in descriptive accounts and instances of non-reflective awareness, awareness that does not deliberate or ponder. In twenty-three "fragments," poems, stories, and ways of thinking and speaking are brought together to intensify intimations of silence telling of itself.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Fragment One: Intimations: Telling Silence
• Fragment Two: The Vastness of the Sensuous
• Fragment Three: Connie’s Walk in the Forest
• Fragment Four: A Silent Gap’s Power
• Fragment Five: Being True to Nothing
• Fragment Six: Haunting Silence
• Fragment Seven: Dwelling with Silence
• Fragment Eight: “That Silence”
• Fragment Nine: Interpreting Silence? Deviations and Interruptions in Hermeneutics in the Lineages of Zeus’s Messenger
• Fragment Ten: Interpreting in Discontinuities
• Fragment Eleven: Silence, Really?
• Fragment Twelve: Sensibilities with Silences
• Fragment Thirteen: Discovery in Darkness and Light
• Fragment Fourteen: Sense of Silence
• Fragment Fifteen: Sudden Sparks and Wonders of My Solitude: Silent Creation and Free Spirits
• Fragment Sixteen: Breaches of Divisions
• Fragment Seventeen: Silent Space
• Fragment Eighteen: Touching Silence
• Fragment Nineteen: Moments
• Fragment Twenty: A Story of Silent Unreason: Nomadic Freedom with Imagination’s Dangerous Instability
• Fragment Twenty-One: Spring
• Fragment Twenty-Two: The Fall of the Power of Fell Time: Abstractions Treated as Unimagined Realities
• Fragment Twenty-Three: A Story about Two Lovers in Pervading Silence Silencing
• References
• Index
• Back Cover