Manifesto for Silence : : Confronting the Politics and Culture of Noise / / Stuart Sim.
This book makes an urgent demand for silence. The ability to think, to reflect, and to create are all highly dependent on regular access to silence. Yet in today's noisy, 24/7 society silence and quiet are under threat. And the business world only makes this worse with cynical marketing strateg...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Virtues of Silence: The Politics of Silence
- Part I: The Politics and Culture of Noise
- 1. The Science and Technology of Silence
- 2. Marketing Noise
- 3. The Assault against Silence and Why Silence Matters
- Part II: The Virtues of Silence
- 4. Where Silence Matters: Religion
- 5. Where Silence Matters: Philosophy
- 6. The Aesthetics of Silence
- 7. Where Silence Matters: The Arts
- 8. Where Silence Matters: Literature
- 9. Where Silence Matters: Language and Speech
- Conclusion: Campaigning for Silence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index