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Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, this book is a profoundly original philosophical work put together as a network of quotations, to show that our language is never our own and that ethics can be understood as an effect of our attitude to language. It is a meditation on justice and addresses the question of how to lead a non-violent life and acknowledge the humanity of others following 9/11 and extending right up to the current moment.
Using extensive interdisciplinary sources, Evil and Silence investigates the nature of evil and the ways to make a life worth living in the face of such a fact of existence. It argues that we must reject the choice of violence as a justified way of life and embrace the creative efforts of nonviolence. The text begins with Socrates’ argument that it is never just to harm another and ends with Cage’s exploration of silence as all the sounds we don’t intend. Drawing on his past work in philosophy of language and music, Fleming develops arguments for the logic of nonviolence and the value of silence. He demonstrates that living consistently by way of silence and meaningful sound, understanding the music and language of our lives, is a justified response to the truth and miseries of evil.
Links to Musical Illustrations and Scores Mentioned in the Text
Mozart's Symphony 40, Beethoven's Symphony 6, and Ives' The Unanswered Question:
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htm
Mozart's Symphony 40
Beethoven's Symphony 6
First page of Wagner's Tristan undIsolde:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bfk2835/index.html
First page of Wagner's Parsifal:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/baj5813/index.html
First and second pages of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bgn9673/index.html
An original manuscript page from Schoenberg's Opus 23, Five Piano Pieces:
http://www.schoenberg.at/scans/Ms23/Ms23/10.jpg
The central tone-row from Berg's Violin Concerto (section B) and the last page of Wozzeck:
http://solomonsmusic.net/wozzeck.htm
Last page of Mahler's Symphony 9:
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP21194-PMLP48640-Symphony_No._9_-_IV.pdf
First page of Stravinsky's Petrushka:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/aad9501/index.html
Page from Bernstein's Mass:
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/mass_scores.htm
Page from Tchaikovsky's Symphony 6:
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/norton_scores.htm
Cage's 4'33'' manuscript page and precursor materials:
http://solomonsmusic.net/4min33se.htm
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