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Silence : a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / Jane Brox.

By: Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 310 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544702486
  • 0544702484
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Silence.LOC classification:
  • BJ1499 .S5 B769 2019
Contents:
Part I. Philadelphia's eastern state penitentiary, 1829: experiment in silence -- Man of sorrows -- Benjamin Rush's vision -- "Good by discipline" -- John Haviland's star of solitudes -- Part II. The nonastic world: a sistory of silence -- In proportion -- Speech and silence -- Thomas Merton: silence and the world -- Measures of time -- The voices of the pages -- The great silence -- Part III. Philadelphia: darkening the dark -- Night in stone -- "I get up and hammer my leather." -- Punishment within punishment -- So that it "may uplift" -- Time again -- Part IV. The silence of women -- Silencing silence -- "Or perhaps women ..." -- Monastic women: more shadow than light -- Part V. The ends of silence -- Thomas Merton: questioning silence -- The monastic sorld: what remains -- The prison cell in our time -- Intervals of silence -- Coda -- In ruins.
Summary: Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Philadelphia's eastern state penitentiary, 1829: experiment in silence -- Man of sorrows -- Benjamin Rush's vision -- "Good by discipline" -- John Haviland's star of solitudes -- Part II. The nonastic world: a sistory of silence -- In proportion -- Speech and silence -- Thomas Merton: silence and the world -- Measures of time -- The voices of the pages -- The great silence -- Part III. Philadelphia: darkening the dark -- Night in stone -- "I get up and hammer my leather." -- Punishment within punishment -- So that it "may uplift" -- Time again -- Part IV. The silence of women -- Silencing silence -- "Or perhaps women ..." -- Monastic women: more shadow than light -- Part V. The ends of silence -- Thomas Merton: questioning silence -- The monastic sorld: what remains -- The prison cell in our time -- Intervals of silence -- Coda -- In ruins.

Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe.

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