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.
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Reason and resonance : a history of modern aurality by Veit Erlmann. ISBN 9781935408048. Published by Zone Books in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
