Heidegger and Language

Jeffrey Powell is Professor of Philosophy at Marshall University. He is currently translating (with William McNeill) Heidegger's History of Beyng (IUP, forthcoming).

The essays in this volume . . . provid[e] worthwhile reading for anyone coming to Heidegger's work on language for the first time, and some help for those who have been thinking about, with, or against him already.(Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) The 14 original essays in this indispensable volume trace the transformations in Heidegger's thinking about language and discourse, hiddenness and unhiddenness, and, most importantly, the limits of language and the significance of silence. . . . Highly recommended.(Choice)

• Introduction \ Jeffrey Powell1. Heidegger's Ontological Analysis of Language \ Daniel O. Dahlstrom2. Listening to the Silence: Reticence and the Call of Conscience in Heidegger's Philosophy \ Walter Brogan3. In Force of Language: Language and Desire in Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics \ William McNeill4. The Secret Homeland of Speech: Heidegger on Language, 1933–1934 \ Richard Polt5. The Logic of Thinking \ John Sallis6. Giving Its Word: Event (as) Language \ Krzysztof Ziarek7. Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to Das Ereignis \ Daniela Vallega-Neu8. Poets as Prophets and as Painters: Heidegger's Turn to Language and the Hölderlinian Turn in Context \ Robert Bernasconi9. Truth Be Told: Homer, Plato, and Heidegger \ Dennis J. Schmidt10. The Way to Heidegger's "Way to Language" \ Jeffrey L. Powell11. Is There a Heidegger—or, for That Matter, a Lacan—Beyond All Gathering? \ David Farrell Krell12. Heidegger and the Question of the "Essence" of Language \ Françoise Dastur13. Dark Celebration: Heidegger's Silent Music \ Peter Hanly14. Heidegger with Blanchot: On the Way to Fragmentation \ Christopher FynskContributorsIndex