Reason and resonance :
Erlmann, Veit.
Reason and resonance : a history of modern aurality / Veit Erlmann. - New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Zone Books ; Distributed by MIT Press, 2010. - 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
2009052201
GBB079353 bnb
015590113 Uk 101542285 DNLM
Auditory perception.
Listening.
Sound.
Culture--Philosophy.
Hearing--History.
Audiology--History.
Auditory Perception.
Hearing.
History, Modern 1601-.
BF251 / .E75 2010
128/.3
2010 L-892 WV 11.1 / E69r 2010
Reason and resonance : a history of modern aurality / Veit Erlmann. - New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Zone Books ; Distributed by MIT Press, 2010. - 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
2009052201
GBB079353 bnb
015590113 Uk 101542285 DNLM
Auditory perception.
Listening.
Sound.
Culture--Philosophy.
Hearing--History.
Audiology--History.
Auditory Perception.
Hearing.
History, Modern 1601-.
BF251 / .E75 2010
128/.3
2010 L-892 WV 11.1 / E69r 2010