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Speaking of Silence in Heidegger
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2021
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In Speaking of Silence in Heidegger, Wanda Torres Gregory critically analyzes Heidegger’sthoughts on silence. Arguing that silence about silence is a guiding principle in his sparse and often reticent words, Torres Gregory sets out to decipher their elusive meanings. Charting the trajectory of Heidegger’s reflections, from Being and Time to On the Way to Language, she shows that he develops his ideas of silence in increasingly closer relations to his also evolving ideas of truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Torres Gregory distinguishes between human, primordial, and primeval forms of silence, and the linguistic, pre-linguistic, and proto-linguistic levels at which silence can occur in relation to sonorous speech. While the book focuses on these inner conceptual dynamics, the author remains mindful of Heidegger’s ties to National Socialism and clarifies how his theoretical assumptions allow for oppressive silencing. The book concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger’s thinking of silence and proposes alternatives to his claims concerning the sound beyond sounds, the metaphysics of mystical silence, the uniquely linguistic essence of the mortals, and the loud idle talk in the age of modern technology.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright Year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4003-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4004-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
142
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1975–.) No access
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1.1. The Silent Call of Conscience and Reticent Discourse No access
1.2. The Silencing in Dread and Profound Boredom No access
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2.1. On the Essence of Truth (1933–34) No access
2.2. Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language (1934) No access
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3.1. Germania No access
3.2. The Rhein No access
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7.1. The Words of the Thinker No access
7.2. The Words of the Thinker as Poet No access
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9.1. The Harmonies and Disharmonies of Silence in Relation to Speech and Sound No access
9.2. Striking Chords between the Reticent CO-RESPONDENCE of Poetry and Thinking, the Metaphysical Silence of Mysticism, and the Loud Chatter of Everydayness No access
9.3. The Silent Duet of the Sonorous Mortals and the Hinting Immortals against the Cacophony of Languageless Animals and the Loudness of the Modern Technological Age No access
