Abstract
What does it mean to hear? Where is it rooted? In an interchange of sense data between an objective source of sound and an subjective perceiver of it? This contribution wants to show that the objectification of hearing loses the hearing itself - just as we lose the wind right in the moment we want to catch it. What can we learn from a listening to the wind? What does it mean to understand a thing as such? With the help of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology the paper claims that if we want to find the primary sense of hearing, we need to understand it as a way of being in the world.
The world speaks to us and we can hear it as long as we are able to keep silent. What does it mean to be silent and how can it help our understanding of the world and things in it - e.g. (as Heidegger uses this example) the northern wind?