Les silences de Sénèque
Largely inspired by the methodology of the anthropology of the senses, this paper is the first step of a broader inquiry on silence in Roman antiquity. Thanks to the attention of Seneca on the senses, his writings are a good place to start with. Even if it is polysemous by essence, silence is less d...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/2709 |
| Summary: | Largely inspired by the methodology of the anthropology of the senses, this paper is the first step of a broader inquiry on silence in Roman antiquity. Thanks to the attention of Seneca on the senses, his writings are a good place to start with. Even if it is polysemous by essence, silence is less defined as the opposite of noises in general, than of human voices. With a few exceptions, silence is not a fact of nature. Neither the rural than the urban worlds produce it, and no one should expect the silence as the only proper environment for thinking. As a consequence, the real silence seems to be inner: it is an exercise of self-constraint brought by the sole philosophy. The wise man can then try to use it as a way of communication, alternative to the speech. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |