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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.
"…[a] wonderful book … Charles Scott's Telling Silence is perhaps in the end not at all about the ineffabile, the arrheton. It is not a 'spiritual' book in that sense. It does not hush, after all. Rather, it urges us to become aware of those silences that our words all too often precipitously fill and so obliterate. Silences of forest and sea, silences of inner and outer space, silences of 'fell time,' silences of affirmations that do not construct a system but create shards, inscribing fragments of thoughtful writing." — Research in Phenomenology
"Charles Scott does not write the way other philosophers write. He does not think the way they think. Silence tells him much more than it does the rest of us. If readers allow their imaginations to be stretched, Scott will show them how many and vast are the secrets of silence." — David Farrell Krell, author of A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Intimations: Telling Silence
2. The Vastness of the Sensuous
3. Connie's Walk in the Forest
4. A Silent Gap's Power
5. Being True to Nothing
6. Haunting Silence
7. Dwelling with Silence
8. "That Silence"
9. Interpreting Silence? Deviations and Interruptions in Hermeneutics in the Lineages of Zeus's Messenger
10. Interpreting in Discontinuities
11. Silence, Really?
12. Sensibilities with Silences
13. Discovery in Darkness and Light
14. Sense of Silence
15. Sudden Sparks and Wonders of My Solitude: Silent Creation and Free Spirits
16. Breaches of Divisions
17. Silent Space
18. Touching Silence
19. Moments
20. A Story of Silent Unreason: Nomadic Freedom with Imagination's Dangerous Instability
21. Spring
22. The Fall of the Power of Fell Time: Abstractions Treated as Unimagined Realities
23. A Story about Two Lovers in Pervading Silence Silencing
References
Index