Immemorial Silence
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780791448786
Subjects: Philosophy; Linguistics; Literature: Classics; Time; Silence (Philosophy); Metaphysics; Language and languages; Epistemology; Speech; Eternity
Description: "Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of intertwined ideas. Exploring silence as the absence of language, which is nonetheless inherent in language itself, and eternity as the outside of time, cutting through time itself, the book unfolds a series of connections between these temporal and linguistic themes."--BOOK JACKET.