Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking

Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has also held positions at Nottingham University and at SOAS, University of London. He has written extensively on liberal thought, the study of ideologies, and the nature of political thinking, as well as on conceptual history, and was the founder-editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. He was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association, and the Medal for Science, Institute of Advanced Studies, Bologna University.

Michael Freeden's Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking offers a rich, panoramic overview of silence's multiple valences, modalities, and conceptualizations. Building on insights from multiple disciplines and fields of research, the book is an academic tour de force, displaying a level of erudition and insight many can only aspire to ... a must-read for anyone interested in the nature and numerous functions of silence, not just for political theorists.

• A Non-Musical Prelude Intermezzo: A Taster Part I: Interpreting and Mapping: Conceptualizations of Silence 1: Layers of Silence 2: The Political Elements of Silence 3: Analysing Silence: Initial Considerations 4: Silence, Stillness and Solitude 5: Absence, Lack and Removal 6: The Dog that did not Bark: Listening for Silence 7: Seven Modalities of Silence 8: Silence in Language and Communication Part II: Decoding and Investigating: Silences in the Lived World 9: Processing Silence: Theologies, Temporalities, Disciplines 10: Superimposed and Invented Voice 11: Tacit Consent and Attributed Consent 12: The Socio-Cultural Filters of Silences 13: State and Government Silences 14: Ideological Assimilations of Silence Coda Bibliography