Research Catalog

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Description

1. 422 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. Auditory perception
2. Listening
3. Sound
4. Culture > Philosophy
5. Hearing > History
6. Audiology > History
7. Audiology
8. Hearing

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Erlmann, Veit, author.

Title

1. Reason and resonance : a history of modern aurality / Veit Erlmann.

Publisher

1. New York : Zone Books, 2014.

Copyright date

1. ©2010

Edition

1. First paperback edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

1. 9781935408055
2. 1935408054