This study argues that our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening ignored, that we are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen and so we constantly mistake warring monologues for genuine dialogue. It seeks to redress that balance by examining the other side of language - listening. Synthesising the insights of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Gadamer, among many others, an argument is put forward for the replacement of the silent silence of traditional Western thought with the rich...