This collection contains original translations of essays, discussions, and papers including six previously unpublished works from the International Colloquium on Heidegger’s Conception of Language, held at The Pennsylvania State University in 1969. This volume endeavors to place Martin Heidegger’s ideas within a wide range of philosophical thought. It contains critical reflections on his conception of speech in Being and Time, linguistic meditations on Heidegger’s use of language, and analysis of his view on the relationship between thought and the language in which it is expressed. In this book, Heidegger scholars will find additional insights into his conception of language and his philosophy as a whole.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part 1
1. Language, Meaning, and Ek-sistence, Joseph J. Kockelmans
2. Heidegger's Conception of Language in Being and Time, Jan Aler
Part 2
3. Poetry and Language in Heidegger, Walter Biemel
4. Heidegger's Topology of Being Otto Pöggeler
5. Thinking and Poetizing in Heidegger, Henri Birault
6. Hermeneutic and Personal Structure of Language, Heinrich Ott
7. Ontological Difference, Hermeneutics, and Language, Joseph J. Kockelmans
8. The World in Another Beginning: Poetic Dwelling and the Role of the Poet, Werner Marx
9. Panel Discussion
Part 3
10. Heidegger's Language: Metalogical Forms of Thought and Grammatical Specialties, Erasmus Schöfer
11. M. Heidegger's "Ontological Difference" and Language, Johannes Lohman
Selected Bibliography
Index