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Below
I have made a few comments regarding class discussion about language.
Included here is a link to George Orwell's piece, "The Politics of the
English Language," as links to pieces relating to the work of Martin Heidegger.
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George Orwell, The Politics
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EXCERPT From Martin
Heidegger, Letter On Humanism (Even this small bit is difficult.
The idea that mankind is the shepherd of Being rather than master of beings;
and that language is the home in which he dwells with Being must be pondered
for many years . . . ) |
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Stanley
Rice, On Metaphor ( a fairly adequate introductory text on language as
man's fundemantal quardian rather than his tool. It depends in part
on realizing that "being" is not a thing and hence it cannot be represented
in a fixed way, but only as a movement in life which we experience through
a relationship to what we call a "thing.") |
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