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Alain Corbin
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Polity
Publication date
June 18, 2018
Pages
160
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9781509517350
ISBN-10
1509517359
Dimensions
0.80 by 5.60 by 8.40 in.
Weight
0.79 lbs.
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$64.95
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The William H. Gass Reader | Treatise on Modern Stimulants | I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche | American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring | Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants | Silence: In the Age of Noise | Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture)
The William H. Gass Reader | Treatise on Modern Stimulants | I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche | American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring | Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants | Silence: In the Age of Noise | Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture)
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.
It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual.
This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.
It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual.
This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.
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