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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- A Non-musical Prelude -- Intermezzo: A Taster -- I. Interpreting And Mapping: Conceptualizations Of Silence -- 1. Layers Of Silence -- 1 Detectable And Hidden Silences -- 2 Agentic And Non-agentic Silences -- 2. The Political Elements Of Silence -- 1 The Thought-practices Of Thinking Politically -- 2 The Ubiquity Of The Political -- 3. Analysing Silence: Initial Considerations -- 1 Charting The Paths Of Silence: Alternative Contours And Configurations 2 Naming: Acoustic Purism And Semantic Latitude -- 3 The Reach Of Silence -- 4 Alternative Non-silences: Sound And Noise -- 4. Silence, Stillness, And Solitude -- 1 Silence And Logos -- 2 Stillness -- 3 Solitude -- 5. Absence, Lack, And Removal -- 1 The Indeterminacy Of Absence -- 2 Radical Lack -- 3 Removal -- 6. The Dog That Did Not Bark: Listening For Silence -- 1 In Pursuit Of Elusiveness -- 2 Academic Predispositions -- 7. Seven Modalities Of Silence -- 1 The Unthinkable -- 2 The Unspeakable And/or The Unsayable -- 3 The Ineffable -- 4 The Inarticulable -- 5 The Unnoticeable 6 The Unknowable -- 7 The Unconceptualizable -- 8 Two Afterthoughts -- 8. Silence In Language And Communication -- 1 The Discursive Distribution Of Silence -- 2 The Micro-structures Of Silence -- 3 Uncommunicative Silences? -- Ii. Decoding And Investigating: Silences In The Lived World -- 9. The Temporalities Of Silence: Theology, History, Anthropology -- 1 Theological And Philosophical Silences -- 2 The Silences Of History -- 3 Tangled Linearities -- 4 Disciplinary Circumspection And Erasure -- 10. Superimposed And Invented Voice -- 1 Crowding Out -- 2 Dead And Unborn Silences 11. Tacit Consent And Attributed Consent -- 1 Locke's Tacit Consent: Unwritten Implications -- 2 The 'silent Majority' -- 12. The Socio-cultural Filters Of Silences -- 1 Buddhist Ineffability -- 2 Thresholds And Transitions -- 3 The Modalities Of Silence And Their Social