Speaking silences: stillness and voice in modern thought and Jewish tradition

Language and silence have usually been understood as opposites and assigned different values, but which one is positive and which negative? When people equate silence with suppression or repression, they argue that it is through language that we discover meaning. Yet people who perceive deep wisdom...

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Main Author: Ettin, Andrew V. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville u.a. Univ. Press of Virginia 1994
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:Language and silence have usually been understood as opposites and assigned different values, but which one is positive and which negative? When people equate silence with suppression or repression, they argue that it is through language that we discover meaning. Yet people who perceive deep wisdom in silence believe that words falsify experience
Ranging widely across time and languages, Andrew Vogel Ettin explores the ways in which various biblical and traditional works as well as modern and contemporary texts - Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and literary - treat the nature of silence and speech and the tension between them. He situates this tension at the heart of the creative process and argues that language and silence need each other and contribute to the power and meaning of one another
Physical Description:XIV, 209 S.
ISBN:0813915090

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