TY - BOOK AU - Erlmann,Veit TI - Reason and resonance: a history of modern aurality SN - 9781935408048 U1 - 128.3 21E PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Zone Books N1 - 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 RĂ©gime -- 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 ER -