The sound of the life-world

Pierre Kerszberg

pp. 169-194

Husserl's investigations of internal time-consciousness take sound as the primary temporal object. However, in these investigations, the structure of the flux of temporal subjectivity is established to the detriment of the rich tonal content of sound. Just as Husserl has enlarged the significance of the spatial object of mathematical physics to include the historically-sedimented layers of its appearance, so the temporal object will receive additional intelligibility if the rich texture of musical sound is taken into consideration. Particularly useful for this task is Bergson's philosophy of the listening experience.

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1010038217651

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Kerszberg, P. (1999). The sound of the life-world. Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2), pp. 169-194.

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