Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:33:44 -0700
Subject: Re: Language?


Daniel McGrady wrote:

> The
> philosophical questioning of language as Heidegger shows the way, is
> not to
> discover what language is, the thing language is, whether a system of
> signs
> or whatever, but to pursue one's own orientation to language, such
> that one
> intensifies one's own language-being,

So I have fallen once again into the trap of asking after "things" in a
manner that perpetuates the tradition of such metaphysics. You just
can't take me anywhere.

Michael Staples






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