Language and Being ─ Heidegger's Linguistics

Language and Being: Heidegger's Linguistics explores Martin Heidegger's radical and for that controversial reflections on language. The study of language was not simply a passing interest in Heidegger's thinking, but a fundamental, career-long concern arguably as significant to him as his study of being. This book traces the intimate connection between language and being in Heidegger's thought, and shows how they cannot be understood apart from one another. It discusses why Heidegger's undervalued philosophy of language is increasingly important, how it figures in the wider context of his work, and how it is to be approached and understood. This includes the significance to Heidegger of being, the logos principle, etymology, phenomenology, mysticism, and poetry. This book illuminates a difficult yet highly significant area in Heidegger's thinking, providing readers with a scholarly, insightful and authoritative interpretation of the topic.

Duane Williams teaches and researches in the Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Liverpool Hope University. His first book, The Linguistic Christ was published in 2011. He is the editor of Medieval Mystical Theology: The Journal of the Eckhart Society, and co-facilitator of the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion.