Reason and resonance
Subtitle: a history of modern aurality
By: Veit Erlmann.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781935408048
Subjects: Auditory perception; Listening; Sound; Culture -- Philosophy; Hearing -- History; Audiology -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The string and the mirror; title: The great entente : anatomy, rationalism, and the quest for reasonance; title: Point of audition : Claude Perrault's "du bruit" (1680) and the politics of pleasure in the Ancient Regime; title: Good vibes : nerves, air, and the sonic self during the French Enlightenment; title: Water, sex, noise : early German romanticism and the metaphysics of listening; title: Hearing oneself hear : the autoresonant self and the expansion of the audible; title: The labyrinth of reason : Hermann von Helmholtz's physiological acoustics and the loss of certainty; title: Rhythm and clues : time and the acoustic unconscious, ca. 1900; title: Echoless : the crisis of twentieth-century listening and the pathology of freedom.