Silence and Society (Hardcover)

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One: Social Facts of Silence

1.?? ?Silence and Society: Below the Bottom Turtle
2.?? ?The Dead, the Living, and the Yet to Be Born?Never-ending Social Things
3.?? ?1950?Conformity and the Crisis of the Idealized Individual
4.?? Westward Journeys: Searching for Silence
5. Clamorous Global Development ? Democracy, Health, and Suicide in Silent India, with Vani Kulkarni
6. Slouching Toward Inequality?Entropic Inequality and the Death of Societies

Part Two: Noise, Dreams, and Identity Confusions

7. Bad Noise Disturbs the Collective Mind
8. History’s Failed Search for Identities?The Silent Self
9.?Fuckin’ Old Man?Noise and Silence in Analytic Talk
10. The Silent Third: Augustine of Hippo, Charles Sanders Pierce, Erving Goffman
11. Icons and Social Fictions?Object Lessons/Many Kinds

Part Three: Waste, Death, and the Beyond of Time

12. Shit and other Fecal Matters at the Tail End of the Modern Era

13. Zygmunt Bauman on Liquid Waste, Being Human, and Bodily Death, with Makenna Goodman
14. What Would the Dead Have Said?Durkheim’s Ghost, A Century Later
15. Father is Gone: The Dead Who Never Stop Talking
16. And That’s Not All: Last Words from the Ashes, by Noah Lemert