The Articulation of Silence in Language

• Autores: Ralf Müller
• Localización: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen / Ralf Müller (ed. lit.), Raquel Bouso García (ed. lit.), Adam Loughnane (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-92320-4, págs. 201-224
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ueda Shizuteru draws on both “Asian” (especially Zen Buddhism) and “Western” ideas to highlight the importance of silence as a mode of expression. This essay analyzes one of the foundations of this project, that is, the idea of “articulation,” a term Wilhelm von Humboldt introduced into Western philosophy. Though Ueda follows Ernst Cassirer in acknowledging the importance of non-linguistic, i.e. symbolic forms of articulation, the way in which he presents his concept of silence remains opaque and contests his underlying assumption that human beings are primarily linguistic. Humboldt’s and Cassirer’s idea of articulation can help clarify Ueda’s usage of the term, while its application by Ueda in a number of analyses can aid us in rethinking the idea of articulation from its inception as voicing (Verlautlichung) and vocalizing (Verlautbarung) and hence rethink the relation of language and silence. The paper ultimately aims at an interpretation of Ueda’s analysis of silence in sitting meditation as drawn towards articulating the very idea of silent meditation in words.