Symphony of Silences invites the reader to become anactive interlocutor in the unfolding of a complex andmultilayered philosophical journey. On an analyticallevel, the book ventures to give a thorough critiqueof contemporary ecological ethics. It develops thehypothesis that others - a word whose carefulspecification occupies the treatise as a whole - areoften being marginalized and silenced in ecologicalethics. Parallel to this critique, the authorsearches for a writing style that may undermine thisdiscourse of silencing, a writing style both succinctand porous. He examines a dialectics of concurrentsaying and listening, of showing and impartialdiscovering, as well as a dynamic synthesis of thespecific and the general. These inquiries areembedded into a narrative. As the argument develops, a story unfolds, the account of a journey that beginsatop a large mountain, goes off to sea, and steerstowards a surprising, unforeseen haven. The narrativeitself is woven tightly into the emerging argumentand helps to attune the complex philosophical themeshere examined to the life that each of us goes onliving, from one day to the next.