The Writing of Aletheia (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics) - Softcover

Travers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788746716 ISBN 13: 9781788746717

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2019

Synopsis

Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words – new words, both descriptive and analytical – for his radical form of philosophy. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time, where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological enquiry; to Contributions to Philosophy, which saw him committed to a transformation of language; to later essays on poets such as Rilke and Trakl in On the Way to Language.

The Writing of Aletheia is the first study to appear in either English or German that provides a full account of Heidegger’s language and writing style. Focusing not only on his major philsophical works but also on his lectures, public talks and poetry, this book explores the complex textuality of Heidegger’s writing: the elaborate chains of wordplay and neologistic formations; the often oblique, circuitous and regressive exposition of his ideas; the infamous tautologies; the startling modification of grammatical rules and syntax; the idiosyncratic typography of his texts; the rhetorical devices, imagery and symbolism; and the tone and voice of his writing. All of these aspects betray not only his will to structure and his assertiveness but also his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about the ultimate goal of his philosophical quest.

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About the Author

Martin Travers is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane. He was educated at the universities of East Anglia, Tübingen and Cambridge and has published widely in the areas of German and comparative literature. He is the author of books on Thomas Mann, the literature of the Conservative Revolution and Gottfried Benn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788746716
• ISBN 13: 9781788746717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254