On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art av Martin Heidegger

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<p>The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger¿s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s ¿ a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following Germany¿s defeat in World War II, Heidegger was banned from teaching at Freiburg University, where he had been a professor since 1928, and his thinking underwent significant changes as he began to cultivate different modes of silence and non-saying in his philosophy of language. This volume illuminates these shifts and charts the evolution of key terms in Heidegger¿s philosophy of language during this key period in the development of his thought. </p><p>The central theme of Heidegger¿s reflections on language in this volume is his repeated engagement with the character of the word, silence and the unsaid, and his rejection of the instrumental conception of language, where he instead prioritized conversation as the ¿homeland of