Il disincantamento acustico : la razionalizzazione attraverso la voce e l'ascolto

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 disenchantment as a process that has affected the historical and social conditions of the human sensory experience through which the dimensions of magic and mystery of the world is perceived acoustically. [Publisher's text].