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The Problem of Language and the Need for a Retrieve

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From the very outset, Heidegger realized clearly that his thought threatened to founder on the shoals of language. 1 Thus in the very “Introduction” to Being and Time he made this significant observation:

With regard to the awkwardness and “inelegance” of expression in the analyses to come, we may remark that it is one thing to give a report in which we tell about beings, but another to grasp beings in their Being. For the latter task we lack not only most of the words, but, above all, the “grammar”.2

“Indes bleibt alles Formelhafte mißverständlich. Gemäß dem in sich mehrfältigen Sachverhalt von Sein und Zeit bleiben auch alle ihn sagenden Worte wie Kehre, Vergessenheit und Geschick mehrdeutig. Nur ein mehrfältiges Denken gelangt in das entsprechende Sagen der Sache jenes Sachverhalts.

“Dieses mehrfältige Denken verlangt zwar keine neue Sprache, aber ein gewandeltes Verhältnis zum Wesen der alten.”

M. Heidegger, “Vorwort” to Fr. Richardson’s Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought, p. XXIII.

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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Deely, J.N. (1971). The Problem of Language and the Need for a Retrieve. In: The Tradition via Heidegger. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3025-0_3

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