Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay reflects on the more than human dimensions of silence; how silence is both more animal, and more divine, than the metaphysical figure of Man. But it also explores, with philosopher Adriana Cavarero, how silence (under the influence of western metaphysics) also becomes a matter of pure spirit that mutes the laughing, crying, screaming works of flesh. In order to listen more attentively to what the more than human registers of silence have to say, this essay creates an occasion to wander into the theologically inflected work of Simone Weil. In Weil’s description of a sounding silence (filled with the inaudible sonic life of embodied creatures), the essay argues, we find a political theology of silence; a more than human form of attention that is enacted or embodied in a ritual and conceptual space marked by a charged and potent awareness of divine absence.
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