Language and Being

Duane Williams teaches and researches in the Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Liverpool Hope University. His first book, The Linguistic Christ was published in 2011. He is the editor of Medieval Mystical Theology: The Journal of the Eckhart Society, and co-facilitator of the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion.

• IntroductionInterpreting HeideggerHeidegger's ApproachHeidegger and LanguageMystical HeideggerHeidegger and the LogosStructure and ScopeChapter 1. The Forgetting Of Being1. 1. The Fundamental Question1. 2. Ontotheology1. 3. The Isness of Being1. 4. The Ontological Difference Chapter 2. The Attunement Of Language To Being2. 1. The Whatness of What2. 2. Co-respondence2. 3. A Linguistic ConcernChapter 3. Language Devalued3. 1. Language as Logical Assertion3. 2. Language as Interpretive Discourse3. 3. Language as Idle Talk3. 4. Curiosity and DuplicityChapter 4. Homelessness And The House Of Being4. 1. Language as Sign System4. 2. The Architectonic Structure of Language4. 3. Two Theories of Language4. 4. The Conventional View of Language4. 5. Language as the House of BeingChapter 5. In The Beginning Was The Word5. 1. Manifestation or Creation?5. 2. The Law of Mediacy5. 3. The Irruption of Poiesis5. 4. Poetry as Linguistic WorkChapter 6. The Flower Of The Mouth6. 1. Alethia and Lichtung6. 2. Koto Ba that Names Iki6. 3. Language as SayingChapter 7. The Dif-ference That Tears And Bears7. 1. A Division in the Middle7. 2. The Striving-Strife of the Rift-Design7. 3. The Pain of the Threshold's Joining7. 4. Language Speaks as the Peal of StillnessChapter 8. Language As It Gives And Not It Is8. 1. The Nothing Noths8. 2. Presence in Absence8. 3. The LeitsatzChapter 9. The Way To Language9. 1. Bringing Language As Language To Language9. 2. The Way-Making Movement9. 3. Seeking the Prize so Rich and FrailChapter 10. The Showing Of Saying As Owning-Event10. 1. Propriation10. 2. The Essence of Man10. 3. An Apparent Contradiction10. 4. Saying the Same with the LogosChapter 11. Language Alone Speaks11. 1. Etymology11. 2. The Peculiarity of Language11. 3. Language is LanguageChapter 12. The Sayers Who More Sayingly Say12. 1. The Destitute Time12. 2. The Closing of the Open12. 3. The Conversion of Consciousness12. 4. More Daring by a Breath12. 5. Poetically Man DwellsConclusionBibliography

One of the virtues of this study is its direct and accessible style … [It] offers a helpful interpretation of the relation of language and Being in Heidegger's thought, and can be recommended as providing a courageous effort to grapple with an immensely difficult topic.