The clinamen, the inclination or turn, toward the presencing of what was primordially nonpresent sets in motion the differential aspect of existence that is necessary for all development and understanding, that irreversibly breaks the hegemony of the same and reveals the alterity of other being.Ĭonventional thinking holds the breaking of silence as the imposition of language and the imposition of silence as the breaking of language. But just as darkness was coeval with if not prior to light, in the Genesis narrative, so too is the silence of God in relation to the word. “Authentic silence,” observes Martin Heidegger, “is possible only in genuine discourse.” Western metaphysics has often identified archē with logos, origin with language. Silence resounds, however, with its own presence, adding meaning in ways that language alone can never accomplish. Silence is often construed as absence, as the nonspatial place where speech or sound in general does not occur.
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