On the Essence of Language: The Metaphysics of Language and the Essencing of the Word ; Concerning Herder's Treatise On the Origin of Language/ Martin Heidegger ; Translated by Wanda Torres Gregory and Yvonne UnnaThis English translation of Vom Wesen der Sprache, volume 85 of Martin Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe, contains fascinating discussions of language that are important both for those interested in Heidegger s thought and for those who wish to think through the nature of language. The guiding theme of these reflections on language is found in Heidegger s lecture notes for a 1939 seminar that focused on J. G. Herder s treatise On the Origin of Language. This course, given just after the completion of his Contributions to Philosophy, sheds new light on the force of language in Heidegger s thought and shows the first openings to his later, better-known works dedicated to the topic of language. The result of this project is to outline how it is that thinking the being of the word moves out of metaphysics into the poetic word and its relation to history. A crucial work, this course brings the reader close to a decisive moment in Heidegger s thought, letting us see how he struggled forward to new ways of thinking how it is that language as language can be thought. |
Contents
The human being has languageThe word | 3 |
On the Monadology | 9 |
Cognitio distincta distinctness | 16 |
Inventingbyfinding | 18 |
The word as essencing of being des Seyns | 27 |
Herder | 35 |
The beginning of philosophy of language proper during | 43 |
Origin | 46 |
Herders consideration of the role of hearing | 101 |
The beinghistorical response cf Question of decision | 102 |
The sounding of language | 109 |
FEELING AND SENSE OF HEARING IN HERDER SOUNDING AND MAKING SOUNDS | 111 |
Feeling | 113 |
Relation between the 2nd and 3rd section of the 1st part | 114 |
What is reason? | 115 |
THE SHEEP BLEATS | 117 |
The metaphysics of language and the consideration | 55 |
Freedom and word | 65 |
Question of the origin and question of the essence | 69 |
Reason | 72 |
Overview | 77 |
Question of the origin as question of origination | 83 |
Hearkening | 93 |
Hearing and hearkening | 94 |
Sound and mark | 95 |
Language human and hearing | 96 |
that which is alive | 97 |
HEARKENING AS MIDDLE OF THE SENSORIUM COMMUNE SOUNDING AND THE TONE THAT BREAKS FREE | 99 |
You are the one bleating | 119 |
The ear the first teacher of language | 120 |
Reason and language | 123 |
Alfred Franz | 131 |
Heinz Maeder | 138 |
Elisabeth Schmidt | 144 |
Dr Wolfgang Ritzel | 154 |
Hans Hermann Groothoff | 160 |
Karl Ulmer | 169 |
Editors Epilogue | 175 |
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