The Acoustic Disenchantment. Rationalization through sound and hearing

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Nicola Pannofino
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/120
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 5-24 File size 210 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2019-120001
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This paper has two main purposes. The first is to show how in Max Weber’s analysis of the process of rationalization and disenchantment of Western culture, recurrent metaphors relating to sound and the sense of hearing are implicitly used. On this basis, the second purpose is to outline a reinterpretation of disen-chantment as a process that has affected the historical and social conditions of the human sensory experience through which the dimensions of magic and mys-tery of the world is perceived acoustically.

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Nicola Pannofino, Il disincantamento acustico. La razionalizzazione attraverso la voce e l’ascolto in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 120/2019, pp 5-24, DOI: 10.3280/SR2019-120001