{"product_id":"heideggers-path-to-language-9781498527040","title":"Heideggers Path to Language","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the recent publication of works from Heidegger's Collected Edition, it has become evident that language occupied a central place in his thought from early on, as he claimed in his later years. Heidegger's Path to Language takes on the timely task of guiding us through the development of his reflections on language from his younger years as a doctoral student to the later period of being-historical thinking. Wanda Torres Gregory argues that Heidegger continually pursued the question concerning the essence of language in what he later called his background discussions. She proposes that the clue lies in his often-implicit use of Aristotle's definition of logos in terms of apophansis, synthesis, and phone as the guideword for his thoughts on language. Torres Gregory uncovers three different stages of this buried path of logos that she correlates with his key philosophical principles at each step: the ideal of a pure logic, the existential analytic in the project of fundamental ontolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn evaluating Torres Gregory's lucidly written study, there is much to commend... Perhaps the most important virtue of the book is its ability to express Heidegger's self-consciously \"reticent\" thinking of language in a remarkably clear and coherent schema, helping to make Heidegger's challenging views on language accessible to a more mainstream analytic audience... At the same time, she introduces a number of interpretive theses regarding this development of Heidegger's thinking of language that are both novel and convincing (e.g. the tri-fold interpretive lens of the logos). * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eWanda Torres Gregory’s Heidegger’s Path to Language is perhaps the most comprehensive view of Heidegger’s philosophical treatment of language yet available in English. * Comparative and Continental Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Question Concerning Language  Part One: Steps in the Path of Logos  Chapter One: Interpreting Logos  Chapter Two: The Pure Logos: 1912-1916  Chapter Three: The Living Logos: 1919-1933  Chapter Four: The Appropriating Logos: 1934-1972  Part Two: Constants and Changes of Language as Phōnē  Chapter Five: Means and Realms  Chapter Six: Linguistic Structures  Chapter Seven: Semantics  Chapter Eight: Truth and Language  Conclusion: Problems Underway to the Essence of Language  The Problem of Wesen  The Problem of Sprache  Toward an Alternative Model of Sprache","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040689881431,"sku":"9781498527040","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498527040.jpg?v=1750947530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heideggers-path-to-language-9781498527040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}