Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvMichael Freeden,University of Oxford) Freeden, Michael (Emeritus Professor of Politics, Emeritus Professor of Politics

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Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political thinking, theory, and language. It explores the diverse dimensions in which silences mould the different core features of the political, as a highly flexible power resource, both enabling and constraining major social practices, traditions, and currents. Departing from the typical focus on intentional silencing and the dominance of logos, the book instead highlights the concealed and unrecognized ways through which silence pervades socio-political life and adopts the guises of the unspeakable, the ineffable, the inarticulable, and the unconceptualizable. Drawing extensively from historical, philosophical, anthropological, psychoanalytical, theological, linguistic, and literary viewpoints, the book demonstrates the common threads that connect silences to those different disciplines, alongside the features that pull them asunder. In extracting and decoding their political implications, it explores both academic literature and colloquial, everyday discourse.Michael Freeden uses select case-studies to explore topics such as Buddhist nondualism, Locke's tacit consent, the submerging of historical narratives, state neutrality, Pinter's miscommunications and menace, and the separate ways ideologies integrate silence into their beliefs. The book offers an analysis of silence from a multi-perspectival range of disciplines, providing a comprehensive and holistic view of silence and the political.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-28
Mått155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198981329

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Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has also held positions at Nottingham University and at SOAS, University of London. He has written extensively on liberal thought, the study of ideologies, and the nature of political thinking, as well as on conceptual history, and was the founder-editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. He was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association, and the Medal for Science, Institute of Advanced Studies, Bologna University.

A Non-Musical PreludeIntermezzo: A TasterPart I: Interpreting and Mapping: Conceptualizations of Silence1: Layers of Silence2: The Political Elements of Silence3: Analysing Silence: Initial Considerations4: Silence, Stillness and Solitude5: Absence, Lack and Removal6: The Dog that did not Bark: Listening for Silence7: Seven Modalities of Silence8: Silence in Language and CommunicationPart II: Decoding and Investigating: Silences in the Lived World9: Processing Silence: Theologies, Temporalities, Disciplines10: Superimposed and Invented Voice11: Tacit Consent and Attributed Consent12: The Socio-Cultural Filters of Silences13: State and Government Silences14: Ideological Assimilations of SilenceCodaBibliography