Silence : : a Social History of one of the Least Understood Elements of our Lives
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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 Monastic World: A History 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 World: 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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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780544702486
0544702484
SUBJECTS
Silence -- History.
Silence -- Social aspects.
Monasticism and religious orders -- History.
Pennsylvania -- History.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.