History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day - Hardcover

Corbin, Alain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509517359 ISBN 13: 9781509517350

Verlag: Polity Press, 2018

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Críticas:

‘Alain Corbin is one of the most imaginative historians writing anywhere. His series of brilliant studies of the senses includes his “auditory landscape” of the nineteenth century. Here, the search for silence, its sounds and meanings. This is a gem, beautiful and thought-provoking.’
John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University

‘Alain Corbin is renowned for pushing historical writing into new areas. In A History of Silence he goes further still: not only into the history of an elusive and many-sided concept, but into its philosophy, theology and literature too.’
Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge

Reseña del editor:

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1509517359
• ISBN 13: 9781509517350
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176