The hermeneutics of Heidegger's speech: A rhetorical phenomenology

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 162-173

  Scult, Allen ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61449300194     PISSN: 00071773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071773.1998.11665443     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. M., Heidegger, “The Way to Language,” in On The Way To Language, trans. P.D. Hertz (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), p. 120.
2. In identifying form with function, the sort of “rhetorical” analysis attempted here of Heidegger's speaking is similar to an innovative version of biblical form criticism dubbed “rhetorical criticism” by the biblical scholar, J., Muilenburg. See J., Muilenburg. “Form Criticism and Beyond.” Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969), pp. 1–18.
3. Perhaps the most influential contemporary definition of rhetoric in these terms is Kenneth Burke's: “[Rhetoric] is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic, and continually born anew; the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.” K., Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), p.43.
4. M., Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? trans. J. Gray (New York: Harper and Row, 1968).
5. Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? p. 171.
6. For an excellent review and exploration of Heidegger's use of this concept, see D.O., Dahlstom, “Heidegger's Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications,” The Review of Metaphysics. Vol.XLVII, No.4 (June, 1994), pp. 775–795.
7. Heidegger, of course, stipulated that the interview not be published until after his death. It is reprinted in R., Wolin, ed., The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 91–116.
8. My way of stating the problem here borrows from Samuel Beckett who enacts the dilemma by continually interrupting himself with exclamations such as: “If I could only speak and say nothing!”.
9. H.-G., Gadamer, Heidegger's Ways, trans. J.W. Stanley (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), p.25.
10. Translated by P. Hertz as “The being of language: the language of being” in “The Nature of Language, “On the Way to Language, p.76.
11. M., Heidegger. On the Way to Language, pp. 1–54.
12. Phaenomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles: Anzeige der hermeneutischen Situation, ed. by Hans-Ulrich, Lessing, Dillhey-Jahrbuch 6 (1989), 235–274; trans, by M. Baur, Man and World 25 (1992), p.365.
13. Heidegger's Ways, p.25.
14. This “lineage” receives its best known articulation in a rabbinic text entitled Pirke Avot, “Sayings of the Fathers,” 1:1.
15. This particular formulation of the idea is not from the Pentateuch, per se. but rather the Hexateuch, Joshua 1:8.
16. What is Called Thinking? p.4.
17. See especially, Deuteronomy 6: 6–9.
18. The phrase “thinking as thanking” echoes a suggestion of Heidegger's in “Conversation on a Country Path,” in Discourse on Thinking, trans, by John Anderson and E.H. Freund (New York: Harperand Row, 1966), p.85.
19. What is Called Thinking, p. 175.
20. “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” trans, by J. Stambaugh, in D.F., Krell, ed. Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), p.392.
21. What is Called Thinking? p.244.
22. I paraphrase Rorty here: “Heideggerese is only Heidegger's gift to us, not Being's gift to Heidegger”, “Heidegger. Wittgenstein, and the Reification of Language,” in R., Rorty, Essays on Heidegger and Others, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p.65.
23. So S., Rosen in The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), p.xi.
24. Burke, Kenneth, A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
25. Gadamer, Hans Georg, Heidegger's Ways, trans, by John W. Stanley (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).
26. Dahlstrom, Daniel O., “Heidegger's Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol.XLVII, No.4 (1994), pp. 775–795.
27. Heidegger, Martin, “Conversation on a Country Path” in Discourse on Thinking, trans. John Anderson and E. Hans. Freund (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), pp. 58–90.
28. Heidegger, Martin, What is Called Thinking? trans. J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper and Row, 1968).
29. Heidegger, Martin, “The Way to Language,” in On The Way To Language, translated by Peter D. Hertz (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), pp. 111–136.
30. Heidegger, Martin, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” trans, by Joan Stambaugh, in David Farrell Krell, ed., Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 373–392.
31. Heidegger, Martin, Phaenomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles: Anzeige der hermeneutischen Situation, ed. by Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Dillhey-Jahrbuch, 6 (1989), 235–274; trans, by Michael Baur, Man and World 25 (1992).
32. Rorty, Richard, “Heidegger, Wittgensetin. and the Reificalion of Language,” in Richard, Rorty, Essays on Heidegger and Others, vol. 2. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 50–65.
33. Rosen, Stanley, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
34. Taylor, Mark, Tears (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).
35. Wolin, Richard, ed., The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader (Cambridge. MIT Press, 1993). pp. 91–116.