Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ways of "Doing" -- 1 Informal 'Logic' and Contextual Meanings of Silence -- 1.1 Forms of Doing -- 1.2 Speech-Acts And The 'In'- And 'By'-formulae -- 1.3 Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Speech Acts -- 2 The Logic of Silence cont'd.: "Pragmatics" of Silence -- 2.1 Forms of Doing -- 2.2 Silent Expression/Communication -- 2.3 Non-Standard Situations in Silent -- 3 Body Language as a Form of Silent Doing -- 3.1 Body Language -- 3.2 Nature of body language -- 3.3 Conditions of Successful Body Language -- 3.4 Possible Meanings of Body Language -- 3.5 Silences as "Dispersed" Practices -- 4 Physical Action as a Form of Silent Doing -- 4.1 Movement & Physical Action -- 4.2 Action/Activity as a (Silent) Form of Doing -- Expressive and Communicative Uses of Action -- 4.3 Communicative Uses of Action described by "By-Locutions" -- 4.4 Consequentialist Uses of Action -- 5 Silence and the Inner Life -- 5.1 Silence and the Inner Life: Conscious Mental Activities, Experiences & States as Silent Forms of Doing -- 5.2 Mental States vs. Mental Activities -- 5.3 Bodily Feelings & Sensations as Silent States or Experiences -- 5.4 Unconscious Mental Activities -- 5.5 Pathologies of Inner Silence: "Silent Minds" -- 5.6 Expressive and Communicative uses of the "In"-/"By"-Formulae in Relation to the Inner Life: Some Examples -- 5.7 Infelicity, Misfiring, Force & Point in Relation to Mental and Physical States and Activities -- 5.8 Infelicity -- 5.9 Misfiring -- 5.10 Point -- Part II: Aesthetics of Silence -- 6 Silence in the Temporal Arts I: Music -- 6.1 General Remarks concerning the "Temporal" and "Visual-Spatial" Arts -- 6.2 Rests/Pauses/Silence in the Form & in the Content of Temporal Works of Art.

6.3 General Considerations regarding the Formal Aspects of Temporal Works of Art -- 6.4 Formal Features of Temporal Art -- 6.5 The Executant's Interpretation of Works of Music -- 6.6 Silent Musical Compositions -- 6.7 Aesthetics of Silence in Dance -- 7 Silence in the Temporal Arts II: The Literary Arts -- 7.1 Formal Aspects of Temporal Art -- Roles of Rests/Pauses/Silences in Literature -- 7.2 Silence as a Theme or Part of a Theme in Literature -- 8 Silence in the Visual-Spatial Arts -- 8.1 Visual-Spatial vis-à-vis Temporal Arts -- 8.2 Aesthetic & Other Expressive Uses of Silence in the Visual-Spatial Arts -- 8.3 Silence in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture -- 8.4 Contextual Optimum Conditions of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture -- 8.5 Painting & Sculpture -- 8.6 Silent Cinema -- 8.7 Films with Significant Silences -- 9 Silence in Nature -- 9.1 Silence in Nature in the wild and in national parks -- 9.2 The Silence of the Deep -- 9.3 The Art Gardens of Japan -- 9.4 Silk Screens of Yokoyama Taikan -- 9.5 Silent Nature in Poetry -- 9.6 Silent Nature in Landscape Painting -- 9.7 Still Nature Photography: Ansel Adams -- 9.8 Documentary & Nature Films -- 9.9 Silent Feature Films & Silence In Film -- 9.10 Prose Descriptions of Silent Nature -- Part III: Ethics and Politics of Silence -- 10 The Ethics of Silence -- 11 Ethical Political Social Dimensions of Silence -- 11.1 Part One: "The Silent" -- 11.2 Part Two: "The Voiceless" -- Part IV: Silence and the Spiritual/Religious Life -- 12 Silence in the Spiritual-Religious Life -- 12.1 The mystic's spiritual ascent to the divine -- 12.2 Mysticism in Buddhism -- 12.3 Visions -- 12.4 Prayer -- 12.5 Christian Monastic Orders & Silence -- 12.6 The Silence of Death -- 12.7 Silence in Grief & Mourning.

13 Symbolic Uses of Silence in the Spiritual/Religious Life - I -- 13.1 "The Silence of God" -- 13.2 St. John of the Cross & the hiddenness of God -- 13.3 Buddhism and the Silence of God -- 13.4 Ingmar Bergman and the Silence/Hiddenness of God -- 14 Symbolic Uses of Silence in the Spiritual/Religious Life - II -- 14.1 The Theme of Isolation And the "Hiddenness" Of God -- 14.2 The Theme of Communion And the "Presence" Of God -- Index.