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Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeden, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Political science.
Silence (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • A Non-musical Prelude
  • Intermezzo: A Taster
  • I. INTERPRETING AND MAPPING: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SILENCE
  • 1. Layers of Silence
  • 1 Detectable and Hidden Silences
  • 2 Agentic and Non-agentic Silences
  • 2. The Political Elements of Silence
  • 1 The Thought-Practices of Thinking Politically
  • 2 The Ubiquity of the Political
  • 3. Analysing Silence: Initial Considerations
  • 1 Charting the Paths of Silence: Alternative Contours and Configurations
  • 2 Naming: Acoustic Purism and Semantic Latitude
  • 3 The Reach of Silence
  • 4 Alternative Non-silences: Sound and Noise
  • 4. Silence, Stillness, and Solitude
  • 1 Silence and Logos
  • 2 Stillness
  • 3 Solitude
  • 5. Absence, Lack, and Removal
  • 1 The Indeterminacy of Absence
  • 2 Radical Lack
  • 3 Removal
  • 6. The Dog that Did Not Bark: Listening for Silence
  • 1 In Pursuit of Elusiveness
  • 2 Academic Predispositions
  • 7. Seven Modalities of Silence
  • 1 The Unthinkable
  • 2 The Unspeakable and/or the Unsayable
  • 3 The Ineffable
  • 4 The Inarticulable
  • 5 The Unnoticeable
  • 6 The Unknowable
  • 7 The Unconceptualizable
  • 8 Two Afterthoughts
  • 8. Silence in Language and Communication
  • 1 The Discursive Distribution of Silence
  • 2 The Micro-structures of Silence
  • 3 Uncommunicative Silences?
  • II. DECODING AND INVESTIGATING: SILENCES IN THE LIVED WORLD
  • 9. The Temporalities of Silence: Theology, History, Anthropology
  • 1 Theological and Philosophical Silences
  • 2 The Silences of History
  • 3 Tangled Linearities
  • 4 Disciplinary Circumspection and Erasure
  • 10. Superimposed and Invented Voice
  • 1 Crowding Out
  • 2 Dead and Unborn Silences
  • 11. Tacit Consent and Attributed Consent
  • 1 Locke's Tacit Consent: Unwritten Implications
  • 2 The 'Silent Majority'
  • 12. The Socio-cultural Filters of Silences
  • 1 Buddhist Ineffability
  • 2 Thresholds and Transitions
  • 3 The Modalities of Silence and Their Social Roots
  • 4 Dramatic Silences
  • 13. State and Government Silences
  • 1 The Quietism of States, Governments, and Constitutions
  • 2 Neutrality and Abstention
  • 3 Commemoration
  • 4 Univocality
  • 14. Ideological Assimilations of Silence
  • 1 Ideological Networks and Ideological Spaces
  • 2 The Proliferation of Ideological Silences
  • 2.1 Liberal Silences
  • 2.2 Feminist Silences
  • 2.3 Anarchist Silences
  • 2.4 Conservative Silences
  • 2.5 Reformist and Radical Silences
  • 2.6 Populist Silences
  • 2.7 Nationalist Silences
  • 2.8 Illiberal Silences
  • Coda
  • Bibliography
  • Index