Auditory imagination
pp. 202-215
in: Smith (ed), Phenomenology in perspective, Berlin, Springer, 1970Abstract
In this essay I propose to investigate phenomenologically a dimension of human experience which may be called auditory imagination. My central aim will be to point out certain phenomena which I claim properly belong to auditory experience and which, if so concretely located, are suggestive of solutions to some philosophical problems concerning man's experience of the world. I do not wish to claim that this investigation is either final or exhaustive, even in relation to the total range of auditory imagination. Certainly one result of phenomenological inquiry ought to be the rediscovery of the amazing wealth and complexity of human experience.