Symphony of Silences : A Journey Through a Multicentric World

ISBN-13: 9783639138214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 156 str.

Martin Lee Mueller

Opis

Symphony of Silences invites the reader to become anactive interlocutor in the unfolding of a complex andmultilayered philosophical journey. On an analyticallevel, the book ventures to give a thorough critiqueof contemporary ecological ethics. It develops thehypothesis that others a word whose carefulspecification occupies the treatise as a whole areoften being marginalized and silenced in ecologicalethics. Parallel to this critique, the authorsearches for a writing style that may undermine thisdiscourse of silencing, a writing style both succinctand porous. He examines a dialectics of concurrentsaying and listening, of showing and impartialdiscovering, as well as a dynamic synthesis of thespecific and the general. These inquiries areembedded into a narrative. As the argument develops,a story unfolds, the account of a journey that beginsatop a large mountain, goes off to sea, and steerstowards a surprising, unforeseen haven. The narrativeitself is woven tightly into the emerging argumentand helps to attune the complex philosophical themeshere examined to the life that each of us goes onliving, from one day to the next.

O autorze

Martin Lee Mueller has lived and studied in Germany, the US, and
Norway. He is the co-founder of the Deep Ecology Workgroup at the
University of Oslo. Currently he lives as a freelance writer in
rural Southern Norway.