Reason and resonance a history of modern aurality /
Erlmann, Veit
Reason and resonance a history of modern aurality / [Texte imprimé] : Veit Erlmann - New York : Zone Books, 2010 - 1 vol. (422 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Index
Notes bibliogr.
Introduction: the string and the mirror -- The great entente : anatomy, rationalism, and the quest for reasonance -- Point of audition : Claude Perrault's "du bruit" (1680) and the politics of pleasure in the Ancien Régime -- Good vibes : nerves, air, and happiness during the French Enlightenment -- Water, sex, noise : early German romanticism and the metaphysics of listening -- Hearing oneself hear : the autoresonant self and the expansion of the audible -- The labyrinth of reason : Hermann von Helmholtz's physiological acoustics and the loss of certainty -- Rhythm and clues : time and the acoustic unconscious, ca. 1900 -- Echoless : the pathology of freedom and the crisis of twentieth-century listening
9781935408048 1935408046
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Reason and resonance a history of modern aurality / [Texte imprimé] : Veit Erlmann - New York : Zone Books, 2010 - 1 vol. (422 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Index
Notes bibliogr.
Introduction: the string and the mirror -- The great entente : anatomy, rationalism, and the quest for reasonance -- Point of audition : Claude Perrault's "du bruit" (1680) and the politics of pleasure in the Ancien Régime -- Good vibes : nerves, air, and happiness during the French Enlightenment -- Water, sex, noise : early German romanticism and the metaphysics of listening -- Hearing oneself hear : the autoresonant self and the expansion of the audible -- The labyrinth of reason : Hermann von Helmholtz's physiological acoustics and the loss of certainty -- Rhythm and clues : time and the acoustic unconscious, ca. 1900 -- Echoless : the pathology of freedom and the crisis of twentieth-century listening
9781935408048 1935408046
128.3