On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĪ CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Ī catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All of these aspects betray not only his will to structure and his assertiveness but also his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about the ultimate goal of his philosophical quest.īibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothekĭie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at. Focusing not only on his major philsophical works but also on his lectures, public talks and poetry, this book explores the complex textuality of Heidegger’s writing: the elaborate chains of wordplay and neologistic formations the often oblique, circuitous and regressive exposition of his ideas the infamous tautologies the startling modification of grammatical rules and syntax the idiosyncratic typography of his texts the rhetorical devices, imagery and symbolism and the tone and voice of his writing. The Writing of Aletheia is the first study to appear in either English or German that provides a full account of Heidegger’s language and writing style. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time, where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological enquiry to Contributions to Philosophy, which saw him committed to a transformation of language to later essays on poets such as Rilke and Trakl in On the Way to Language.

Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words – new words, both descriptive and analytical – for his radical form of philosophy.

On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger