A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott's 'Telling Silence' (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis)

*Aiming 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.

Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,
Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of
numerous books including Living with Indifference, The Lives of
Things, and The Time of Memory.

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