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Speaking Silences - Stillness and Voice in Modern Thought and Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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Speaking Silences - Stillness and Voice in Modern Thought and Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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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. Critically examining the idea
of a "Judeo-Christian" culture, Ettin shows how silence is imposed
by a dominant culture on another culture and how the dominated
culture - in this case Judaism - becomes excluded from the
historical conversation about values and ideas. He also
demonstrates the broader uses of both speech and silence as
cultural weapons by the vulnerable or oppressed, who have no other
means of defense or witness. We generally interpret silence as a
void, but Ettin shows it to be a mode of communication that carries
the potential for intense variety. The loss of a public voice has
implications for both the dominant and the dominated culture. The
author examines these implications in the following contexts:
contemporary feminist attempts, especially within Judaism, to
rectify the masculine language of worship and Godhead in order to
end language-generated alienation; the situationof the Yiddish
writer as exemplary of a writer in exile or a language that is
marginalized; the Jewish impulse toward universalism, with its
corresponding danger of loss of voice; and the values of silence
and speech arising from the experiences of the Holocaust. In the
process, he considers the implications for multicultural societies.
Speaking Silences is a broadly interdisciplinary work that will
appeal to scholars and readers interested in modern and
contemporary literature, Jewish studies, religion and literature,
and aesthetics.
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