File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1999/lyotard.9904, message 10


Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:20:49 -0700
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Gods, Apes, Genes - Language


J. B. Sclisizzi wrote:
> 
> hugh bone wrote:
> 
> > And whether we consider ourselves images of god(s), superior apes, or
> > merely genetic relatives of all life-forms, "language" is the instrument
> > of understanding our human "being".
> 
> and that being, like that understanding, like that language, has strong
> historical and cultural components.  as heidegger said, "it is not a matter
> of stating a new view of language.  what is important is learning to live in
> the speaking of language."
> 
> brent ...
> 
> http://www.gherkin.com/palimpsest/


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Thanks Brent,

Sounds like a language-god replacing a history-god, but perhaps
he explained what he meant by "learning to live the speaking of a
language".

Taken literally it sounds as if living is a mystical function of 
speaking, and life is a mystery, I would imagine, even for those who
cannot speak.

In the context of addressor, addressee, referent, the social bond and 
language games, I don't know how to approach Heidegger's phrase.

Hugh


   

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