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Description: Is sound really so pleasant in its nature that it can flatter oneself to the point that, as Exnophon once said, "there is no sound more pleasing than one’s own praises"? (BT 2010)
This positive idea of sound can be compared with a similarly flattering view of its opposite (that is, silence), in that, as Thomas Carlyle once wrote, "Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." (BT 2010a)
Contrary to these equally wonderful views about sound and silence (and other claims as will be discussed in the book), acoustics (in relation to sound and silence) is neither possible nor desirable to the extent that the respective ideologues (on the opposing sides of the fence) would like us to believe.
Needless to say, one should not misleadingly treat this questionability of the conventional wisdom about the nature of sound and silence as a suggestion that acoustics is therefore a worthless field of study, or that some fields of study (related to acoustics) like music, mathematical acoustics, psychoacoustics, architectural acoustics, and so on are to be ignored. Obviously, neither of these extreme views is reasonable either.
Instead, this book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of acoustics, especially in the dialectic context of sound and silence—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). In other words, this book offers a new theory (that is, the multilateral theory of acoustics) to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on acoustics in an original way.
If successful, this seminal project is to fundamentally change the way that we think about acoustics, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what
I originally called its "post-human" fate.
In this book:
• Introduction — The Importance of Acoustics
• Sound and Its Doubleness
• Silence and Its Duality
• Conclusion — The Future of Acoustics
Contents:
List of Tables • Acknowledgments • List of Abbreviations
Part One: Introduction • Chapter One: Introduction—The Importance of Acoustics • The Questionability of a Conventional Wisdom • Acoustics in Relation to Sound and Silence • The Diverse Sub-Fields of Acoustics • The Theoretical Debate • The Multilateral Theory of Acoustics • Theory and Meta-Theory • The Logic of Existential Dialectics • Sophisticated Methodological Holism • Chapter Outline • Some Clarifications
Part Two: Sound • Chapter Two: Sound and Its Doubleness • The Orderliness of Sound • Sound and the Mind • Sound and Nature • Sound and Society • Sound and Culture • The Disturbance of Sound
Part Three: Silence • Chapter Three: Silence and Its Duality • The Serenity of Silence • Silence and the Mind • Silence and Nature • Silence and Society • Silence and Culture • The Turmoil of Silence
Part Four: Conclusion • Chapter Four: Conclusion—The Future of Acoustics • Beyond Sound and Silence 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle • 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle • 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle • 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle • 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle • 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle • 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle • 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle • 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle • 10th Thesis: The Theory-Praxis Principle • 11th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle • 12th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle • 13th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle • 14th Thesis: The Sofness-Hardness Principle • 15th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle • 6th Thesis: The Sameness-Difference Principle • 17th Thesis: The Post-Human Creativeness • Towards the Post-Human Creativeness
Bibliography • Index ISBN - 9788130919959
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Pages : 480
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