Heidegger's path to language / Wanda Torres Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Wanda Torres, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xxv, 149 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

With the recent publication of works from Heidegger's Collected Edition, it has become evident that language occupied a central place in his thought "from early on," as he claimed in his later years. Heidegger's Path to Language takes on the timely task of guiding us through the development of his reflections on language from his younger years as a doctoral student to the later period of being-historical thinking. Wanda Torres Gregory argues that Heidegger continually pursued the question concerning the essence of language in what he later called his "background" discussions. She proposes that the clue lies in his often implicit use of Aristotle's definition of logos-in terms of apophansis, synthesis, and phone-as the guideword for his thoughts on language. Torres Gregory uncovers three different stages of this buried path of logos that she correlates with his key philosophical principles at each step: the ideal of a pure logic, the existential analytic in the project of fundamental ontology, and the meditations on the appropriating event. Her analysis of the constants and changes in Heidegger's way to language via logos continues with a systematic comparison of his different answers to age-old philosophical problems concerning how language relates to reality, thought, meaning, and truth. Torres Gregory concludes with a critique that unveils Heidegger's later dogmas and inconsistencies, makes a significant contribution to scholarship in Heidegger studies, and challenges his concept of the mysterious language of Er-eignis with an alternative (bio-linguistic) model of its appropriating force. Heidegger's Path to Language contributes to the scholarship on Heidegger, continental philosophy, philosophy of language, comparative literature, German studies, and linguistics. It is intended primarily for specialists in those fields and will thus be of interest mainly to college professors and graduate students. Book jacket.

Contents:

The question concerning language

Steps in the path of logos

Interpreting logos

The pure logos: 1912-1916

The living logos: 1919-1933

The appropriating logos: 1934-1972

Constants and changes of language as phn

Means and realms

Linguistic structures

Semantics

Truth and language

Problems underway to the essence of language

The problem of Wesen

The problem of Sprache

Toward an alternative model of Sprache.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gregory, Wanda Torres, author. Heidegger's path to language

ISBN:

9781498527026

1498527027

OCLC:

951070817