Language after Heidegger

Krzysztof Ziarek

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger's Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the thinker's daring use of language is an integral part of his philosophical expression. Ziarek emphasizes the liberating potential of language as an event that discloses being and amplifies Heidegger's call for a transformative approach to poetry, power, and ultimately, philosophy.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Event Language
2. Words and Signs
3. Poetry and the Poietic
4. Language after Metaphysics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Philosophie du langage
• Movements
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy of language
• Phenomenology
• Language
• Langage

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 28 octobre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253011091
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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LANGUAGE AFTER HEIDEGGER
Studies in Continental Thought
John Sallis, editor
Consulting Editors
Robert Bernasconi
William L. McBride
Rudolph Bernet
J. N. Mohanty
John D. Caputo
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Charles E. Scott
David Farrell Krell
Thomas Sheehan
Lenore Langsdorf
Robert Sokolowski
Alphonso Lingis
Bruce W. Wilshire
David Wood
LANGUAGE AFTER HEIDEGGER
KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK
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Das Wort kommt zur Sprache, das Seyn bring sich zum Wort .
The word comes to language, Being brings itself to word.
-Heidegger, GA 74, 112
CONTENTS
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Event | Language
2 Words and Signs
3 Poetry and the Poietic
4 Language after Metaphysics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
PREFACE
The motivation and several ideas formative for this book have been in gestation for a while, both in my previous publications on Heidegger, language, and avant-garde poetry and poetics, as well as in my graduate teaching. These endeavors were directed toward developing the implications of Heidegger s approach to language and evolving a way of thinking through language in the aftermath of Heidegger s radical redefinition of philosophy. The more immediate impetus for writing this study has been the publication in German of the series of Heidegger s manuscripts from late 1930s and early 1940s that develop the insights and problems raised initially in his Contributions to Philosophy . Readings these newly available texts, I realized their crucial import for Heidegger s radically rethought understanding of language. The appearance of these works, in particular volumes 71 and 74 of the Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works), made the articulation of the innovative character of Heidegger s conception, especially its distinctness from structuralism and post-structuralism, all the more important and timely. Distinct from the linguistic turn and the post-structuralist critiques of the sign, Heidegger s approach hinges on the singular notion of the word and the relation between the event and the saying. This transition between the event and the saying is prior to and yet already related to signs and the difference between the sensible and the intelligible. My book underscores the idiomatic character of Heidegger s approach, and does so for two reasons: first, because it has not been sufficiently addressed or appreciated in more contemporary discussions of language, and second, because it offers a new way for understanding the relation between thought and language. This inventive language of thinking is, I believe, of crucial significance not only for future philosophy but also for gauging the import of poetic language, and not only in poetry or literature but in other arts as well.
Over the years, conversations and exchanges with my colleagues, both at the University at Buffalo and elsewhere, have contributed, in ways impossible to trace here, to how these ideas about language have evolved into the shape they receive here. I would like to thank especially Ewa P onowska Ziarek for her advice, support, and comments on the manuscript, particularly her suggestions about the introduction. I also want to express my gratitude to Dee Mortensen, senior sponsoring editor at Indiana University Press, and to Professor John Sallis for their generous comments, advice, and suggestions during the review process for this book. Two anonymous reviewers for Indiana University Press helped make Language after Heidegger a better book. I am grateful to Sarah Jacobi, Michelle Sybert, and Nancy Lila Lightfoot at Indiana University Press and Deborah Oliver, my copyeditor, for their help in preparing and guiding the book through production.
I also want to acknowledge here the support from the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, whose generous research grant was of great help to me in finishing the manuscript and preparing it for publication.
Nicola Del Roscio, the president of the Cy Twombly Foundation, has generously given his permission for the use of Cy Twombly, Untitled , 1970, for the cover.
All the translations from the volumes of Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe that are not yet available in English are mine. I owe special thanks to Andrew Mitchell, who read most of my translations from GA 69, 70, 74 and 78, and suggested important corrections and improvements. His recommendations and modifications were of great help in finalizing these translations. I also want to thank Rodolphe Gasch for his suggestions with regard to translating several sentences. Any remaining imperfections and errors in these translations are mine alone. In these translations, I opt to render the verb stimmen as to tune, in part to keep playing off the translations that use to dispose instead (for instance, Rojcewicz in The Event ) and in this way to indicate that Heidegger s use of stimmen points to how the disposing of relations from the event sets them on the way to language and gives them their tone or voice. In my discussion of the relevant passages from Heidegger, I often use both dispose and tune to keep in view the relation between the disposing in question and the movement of language.
I have retained original emphasis (italics) in Heidegger and other quotations. In translating the archaic spelling Seyn used by Heidegger, I follow the recent practice of rendering it as beyng, to preserve the silent distinction between i and y , which figures the attempt in Heidegger s thought to bring metaphysics to a turning point, to its Verwindung . For the sake of uniformity, I changed the other translation variant, be-ing, to beyng in the excerpts I cite from Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary s translation of Besinnung as Mindfulness and from Kalary and F. Schalow s translation of Die Armut as Poverty.
A few sections of this book incorporate and rework material that appeared previously:
Giving Its Word: Event as Language, in Heidegger and Language , ed. Jeffrey Powell (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013).
Reticent Event: Letting Things Happen, Textual Practice 25: 2 (2011): 245-261.
ABBREVIATIONS
Works in Martin Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1975-) are listed here using the conventional abbreviation, GA , followed by volume number.
Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works)
GA 4
Erl uterungen zu H lderlins Dichtung . 3rd ed. (1991, 2010, 2012)
GA 12
Unterwegs zur Sprache (1985)
GA 65
Beitr ge zur Philosophie: Vom Ereignis (1989)
GA 66
Besinnung (1997)
GA 67
Metaphysik und Nihilismus (1999)
GA 69
Die Geschichte des Seyns (1998)
GA 70
ber den Anfang (2005)
GA 71
Das Ereignis (2009)
GA 74
Zum Wesen der Sprache und Zur Frage nach der Kunst (2010)
GA 78
Der Spruch des Anaximader (2010)
GA 79
Bremer und Freiburger Vortr ge (1994)
GA 85
Vom Wesen der Sprache (1999)
Other Works by Heidegger
A
Die Armut
BW
Basic Writings
CP
Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)
E
The Event
FS
Four Seminars
M
Mindfulness
OEL
On the Essence of Language: The Metaphysics of Language and the Essencing of the Word; Concerning Herder s Treatise On the Origin of Language
OTB
On Time and Being
OWL
On the Way to Language
PA
Parmenides
P
Poverty
PLT
Poetry, Language, Thought
ZSD
Zur Sache des Denkens
Frequently Cited Works by Other Authors
D
Kim, Myung Mi. Dura
SLT
Howe, Susan Souls of the Labadie Tract
LANGUAGE AFTER HEIDEGGER
Introduction
As the title indicates, this book explores both language according to Heidegger: Heidegger s idiomatic and innovative approach to words and language, and also language after Heidegger, that is, how we can think about language differently thanks to Heidegger s work. In this way, while considering Heidegger s main ideas on language, the book examines the crucial role Heidegger s distinctive language explorations and inventions play in shaping not only his approach to language but also his idiomatic way of thinking. For what is critical to Heidegger s enterprise is developing a manner of thinking through language, that is, thinking that opens up new avenues and discovers unexpected insights less by way of concepts or arguments than by a specific way of listening to and being guided by language and its intrinsic ingenuity.
There are several reasons why such a study is both important and timely. To begin, there is no current book devoted to tracing adeq