The Silent God and the Silenced

af Min-Ah Cho

"By exploring silence as more than just the mere absence of sound, scholars have addressed silence as a means through which one genuinely listens to Dasein (Heidegger), as an antidote to a reactive, volatile, and opinion-slinging culture (Susan Sontag), or as a communication alternative to the violent and turbulent rhetoric of the dominant narrative. Commonly recognized in these studies is the spiritual and mystical dimension of silence that transcends the rational and the comprehensible. This b... (Læs mere)