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- Title
The Hermeneutics of Rhetoric in Heidegger.
- Authors
Marassi, Massimo
- Abstract
This article examines whether it is possible to overcome the ineffable nature of the essence of things by using an originary rhetoric. The distinction between what can be perceived by the senses and what cannot, made by philosopher Plato and represented in various forms throughout the history of human thought, constitutes the overall structure of traditional metaphysics. For this reason a study of rhetorical language in philosopher Martin Heidegger cannot ignore the role of the transcendent power of the word, of its being a sign of otherness and of its constant interrelationship with metaphysics. By stressing the intimate link between language and Being, what Heidegger wishes to underline are the differing perceptions of reality that, in existence, in encounters between human beings, have to be expressed through the medium of metaphors, thus creating the different linguistic expressions intended to persuade and convince, communicate and designate, by means of precise connotation or the beauty of poetry. At first sight the composition of language, in its use and in its perception, would seem to point us in the direction of tracing the linguistic signs and references of the history of Being. Man should look out for both the historical topics of language and the creation of the figures of speech best suited to describe reality, throwing light on all its aspects.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of language; LANGUAGE &; history; INEFFABLE, The; RHETORIC; THOUGHT &; thinking; METAPHYSICS; HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1889-1976
- Publication
Philosophy & Rhetoric, 1986, Vol 19, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0031-8213
- Publication type
Article