CONTEMPORARY GERMAN PHILOSOPHY Volume 3 1983 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK AND LONDON88 Morality and Religion in Kant ‘other than he i within the horizon of these sciences which methodo- logically investigate him as an object. Map, a the subject which he is tnd must be, has universally vanished Yom the horizon of the empirical sciences, and even largely from the field of vision of the formation of philosophical tones. Therefore, itis thus no wonder that, considered from the contemporary perspective, Kant’s ethice and theory of religion appear rather as dignified museum pieces than 2% postions which cout il re the dat vay. 1, however, want to caution against simply dismissing these Kan tian positions. "We would obviously be able to do this only if we ‘new with complete certainty that we were right about all that which, in our eyes, speaks against Kanes positon; that is, if we could be certain about our historicism, our relativism, our subjecless objectivism, our metaphysical scepticism, But simply because we hold these positions does not make them tve, and in no way are We protected ffom the possibility that Kant could be more right than ‘Ourselies, We need therefore to examine our own positions just as ‘citically as we do Kant’s. Possibly, we must aguin form & ‘of reton and. concept of what we are and must be as subjects. What we hve gone through inthe history of thought and of philosophy since Kant will reliably prevent us from simply returning to Kant’ Positions. Nevertheless, it would help us a gree deal if we funda: mentally considered these positions of Kant and seriously confronted ‘ourselves with the of his arguments. For as often ae 1 may ‘consider and review them, a leas their cove seems to me to be sold. Crpey Coan Fey, V3 HEBEL — FRIEND OF THE HOUSE* Martin Heidegger ‘Translated by Bruce V. Foltz and Michael Heim Whois fohann Pete Hebel? ‘The question could be answered ina Aree nye cold ave the story ohn man fe nated ts ‘Went har, peraps, the nme Joba Peter Habel bere sn therein de choo We learn few of hs poems from ove textbook. and ‘igly remember one or another of em. Sometimes to, we sl Nr the name fonann Derr Hehe when we come across one of his tslenlarsones Tes good to know the course ofthis poet's fe, for this is wha dorsi ha he ans poets source within him shod spring orth Johann Peter Hebel was bom in 1740 im base wher his parents of German ongin, were ip the Sis Ciel Service The father out fred the birth of te ntan Hane Peer by oni outs year Atte fe of thirteen the boy lost hi other, who cme from Hasse fn TE Mice Vay. ‘The Wee Valcy goes irom te end inthe Rhine nous fatet Lirtch vp into she Black Foret to the Felder where the Wiese River sping forth Hebel has sung oft shape ands oune in bis ret pox “The Wiese" ater the young Hebe! stented the gymnasiom in Karkahe, the seed theology at Erlangen, as vier inthe Protestant Margen Td and soon er egies omen, Aethe age of thiey-one lebel | ine aun this ine ara teacher ~ tothe gyms se Kerb {Tere he wast profesor and school pina snd nal tein “high pote an religous offices and honors nt be de tthe age of strain on September 22,1826. More than ba of Hebets He war pene far from hr homeland | inlet even Karruhe wa for hf away, fora nearness othe Jand of is bith and shiltnood tneesangiy a iestebly pence | Gd’the Wise Valey and becsoned to hn The sap and eng of is Swe earth and the robustly cheerfl aritade of the people here ‘tho held him in atection remained alive in Hebe hear ap pir ape fom Hebe der Howfeand (Pliage, Caster Mee, 1957)90 Hebel ~ Friend ofthe House Te eg ote wheat ww ah ig rie ie ewe alah ps Teeth le ans Jere te ogc! tle ah ae ee Wot ee pe a ‘he ee a rt ty te ig eo creases ot soln pe we ass see Tier soiotae We could infer that, beease i written in a lect. Heels poetry tpeais only of a narrow world it moreover, widely bed tat & diiest i # misused and musshapen version ofthe standard spoken as wrtten language. Bit this atong. Duet the syste vellpring of every mature language Whsteves comtanad it the ‘pio langage Aows out tos fom he dacce ‘What is conzaned in the spit of genuine language? Ie preserves fn ict inconspicwous but basic connections with Cod with the ‘worl with humans and thes works, wits her actions an inset Contained inthe sit of language i that ltuness, tae all pense test fom which each thing har provenance uch Wey Cake has fecoprzed vale and bears rie “This loftnes and validity comes vo life in language. uti aio ies with it as soon as language mest Go without te tow fon Source, which isthe dialect. Johann Peter Hebel wes well rare of {his "And so ina leer writen sory Before the publication of te emu fe Nee i poco iy nian the character and limited viewpoint of small ndgeaoee which he means the Allemanic peopl), but that they me sf te ane time “noble poems” (Lees, p10 Whats nable poraiy"? 13 porry that has nobility, tat i, has 4 lly origin fom that which inherently endures and whose profit five forces ncter deplete! Johan Peter Hebel ih secondngh og sere poet ofa dslct and a region. Hebel isa poct of werlowide linport. “And with this we now seen to have an answer to ov ques tes, whg Johan eter ihe Yt we sl do ot ve he oe We would have tony if we also Kaew why Hebel sche grt post Re ‘is. And so we ask again: Who is Johann Peter Hebel? poss Weare now reaching for an aver to ths gutsuon When we sy Johann Peter Hebel isthe friend of he bons ‘he answer at fst sous, Hf aot altogether uninelige Nowitiend~ 3 simple word, yet one of deep ant trou! netog ‘Thanks to a wonderous keennes of ca Hebel found the mans “house fiend" and presered fs simulating polyemy Hebel ies this same forthe itl ofthe Haden PronnceCaenday which nce Martin Heidegger/trans. by Bruce V, Foltz and Michael Heim 91 _Butat the same tne he recognized inthe ttle "Howse frend a Word yhich characterized hs own poste eng Hebel was “etised with the Denti es of making the Caen dat of the Rhenish Hoste frend into welcome and benecieot Publlaon,”" whe wre in 1811 to the “gland doc moo fons Ihe Minisyin Kare; te was pesed “to eas i post bi, asthe exemplary lena houguon al of Germany td ee {or of any posible competion. Wa be says het about ht ‘beautiful idea for a calendar deserves our word-by word consideration, ‘The calendar sould become «publication rcbeinung) Isto sonstantly illuminate andsbed ight onthe daly life of haan beings ‘The calendar should not merely appea ike any ther printed atte Which one ic has been seen, tas aendy disappeared. ‘The calendars appearance (Ercheinenp) should be “welcome ane which i freely greted, not one imposed on people Dy the a thors, as was common ate tine, “The calendar's appearance should be "beneficent": proffered with the hope of increasing the readers welt heing and of lessening Hswoe In such fashion the ealendar should speak nan “exemplary” way beyond the nartow bordem of the province toward all of Germany, for Hebel messures his utterances (Sager and writing by the highes slandards. Fortis reason alone ean be alo ase the sope of uch Sn appearance ° Fealy, Hebel does not refeain fom admitting that everything e= scotia that humans are able to cents pt of etory inte noble fontes~ even a calendar In out day the “newsrmparine’ lus Inert), tas superseded the old calenat and destoyed ie "The fat: ‘et, the "newsmagazine," sates, stot, chow the esential and ineential onto the same uniform level of the superial,te ephe- amerally enticing, and the ateady past at vell The ater, the Glen: ar, was once able to show the enurng in the inconspicuous tnd to sustain ler awareness through fepeted readings and relecuons this way Hebel, apart ftom this ever having occured to him, brought the "beau dea” of his calendar to shine beyond is owt time, everanew to enchant ee thoughts and senses of en How did this happen’ Ic happened because febe became who he was, he De fame the howsefsend. The simple but suggestive word “howe fiend” names the base character of Hebels base acy, To be sure, if one pereives the busines of poets to consist exclir Sey In he pon of poems ten oe an afin atc dlacontinued fis poetic activity afer publishing te Alamante Foon Bur the poens or fends of rst natre Sad anor ae oy the begining of his World-wide poe achievements Te osly by ‘rte of the stories and reflections ofthe Hebel calendar thatthe2 Hebel ~ Friend of the House begining develops and becomes most noble German language. Hebel, who lived ins lucid proximity to language, knew of thee riches According to his own poetic feling, then, be seeced the loveliest plcss from those he had punto the Calendar ofthe Rhensh House Friend. He thus refined the weasure foto what wae ost precious, Sul ide che for ad in T81T bested ean te eie Ge. mmanspeaking word as the Little Prey “The pondering apd sexing by which the Lite Treas became the literary work thu sll clans ou astonishment came a ofthat Poetic atrude by which we recognize Hebel asthe house fren, Sutin the Lisle Treasury the Allemoni Poem are taken up aod brs in anew ay Guten eet es of hob” as concdved Uy the poet's great contemporsy from te Sctwabian region, the thinker, Georg Wilhelm. freisch gel ‘Aufteben means, inthe Git place ott fom the floor what tes before one. Yet this sor of aeben remains external a long sit doesnot define an auftcben that means someting Uke: to sere uP or pee naar). Shon sng ae Ingo only when ie comes from an efbeben that suggests to vate to refine, to engoble, and thus to transform, in Sicha miunnet Hebel has “taken up" the Alleanie Poems ino the Late Teaser ‘The mage of the poems glows out ofthe Lit Fessry apart rom thei actualy having been incaded ‘What we Commonly see of the word of human and vine things, get cansformed through poetic sayings iar dcveoniche Sage int hac precious ad ito te een of what mysterious The femnobling tha wansforns happens by way ofa intend Language, But it isan ineasifeaion which goes toward simptcty. To inter sity language tovarl sinptety inns: to wanstorn evrything ito ‘he sot glow ofthe peaceTll Sounding word. This ennobling speech (Sagen) ‘characterises the poet cthity of Johann Peet eb! nly after we have reflected on this sufficiently do we begin to understand adequately, and enduringly. what respected men sech Enil Seuss, Wilhelm Alewegs, and Wilbelm Zentnerbave long fe ogsized, nanely, that Heb letters belong to the unity of whole poetic work along withthe Allemeni Poem and the Lit Treo, aly poet who reals with ines dary ha hi are was that ofthe house fiend, and who tok dp that nature ever more ‘eaiively, could have wnitenthow eer Yet gain we ask; who i thi, the howsetriend? in what manner avd 0 which house is Hebel the fiend? Fits we think of all the houses in which people of the country and city dwell All oo easly. and often out of need, we conecie Of houses today a8 the spaces in which everyday human le rons a Martin Heidegger /trans. by Bruce V. Foltz and Michael Heim 93 ‘course, The house has almost become a mere container for dwelling ‘Yer the house frst hecomes a house only through dwelling, Building, ‘whereby the hous is constructed, is that which i truly i only when, from the beginning, it remains in tune with thae which allows us to dlwell, and which in each case swakens and assures ever more original possibilities for dweling. If the veb “to dwell is thought broudly and essentially enovgh, ie designates to us the manner in which man, upon the eavth and be neath the sky, completes the passage from birth to death, ‘This pas sige is multiform and eich in transformations. It nevertheless remnsins throughout the chit ait of dwelling, of the human sojourn becween earth and sky, between birth and death, between joy and ptim be- ‘ween work and word If we call this manifold "Between" the world, then the world is the house thar mortals inhabit. The individual houses, villages, and cities ate, for theie pat, buildings which gather that manifold between within and around themselves eis buildings which first bring the entth as inabited landscape into the nearess of man, and at the same time place the nearness of neighborly dwelling beneath the ex se of the sky, Only in the measure chat man, as the mortal oe, Inhabits the house of the world, does he stand in the calling (Be stimmung) to build a house for the celestial ones, and 2 dwelling: place for hese “The house friend is friend tothe house which the word i. He attached to the whole wide dwelling of humankind. Yee hie artach ‘ment is based on a belongingnes to the world and its structure, abe Tongingness that i primordial but commensurate with each age. So ‘We find "Reflections on the World-Lifiee” in the Little Treasury of the house fiend However, the houwseftiend had not arbitrarily and haphazaedly scattered the reflections among the stories, He had carefully const ered the treasure ofthe treasury and ordered it well ‘Moreover, the Lite Treasury even begins with the “General Re- Actions on the World difice.” The frend ofthis house fist brings before us "the earth and sun.” After that, teflections on the moon follow. “Then, in the sequence between the stories about the harm Jess and the adventuresome, about the upright and cunning actions and enterprises of humans, there sparkle the stars. first, divided into ‘wo passages, the planets end comets, and then ~ intentionally place ced atthe conclusion ~ the fixed stars, ‘Now one could say, and with a certain correctness, that [ebel’s “Reflections on the World-Edifice” were only the result of the te- spect accorded the Enlightment by his own time. Discoveries inthe progressing natural sciences could no longer be ignored in Hebel’ ‘ime. There was a desire to pass these discoveries on to men as «bet9 Hebel — Friend ofthe House Inowiedge of nature. This remare about the alightenment is indeed comect, but it mises completely the intention benind the shelton he Wort ee” mie by Johan ees ic, te end. We can pereie his underiyiag intention ony after we ow ube the eal rend of thoes ° ‘What neces surprises us is that it isnot Hebel. Rut then who isie? Hebel himset provides us with the anmwer, provides tin fact in ‘renal pstag his "Retin o he Word Ee” When ‘we attend to what is unique in the pastag, we ean infer from it a toe which & to be deeve in out altempe to conceive the estence de Neen denen) of the bute ent fom vtin the famevork of the house of the world. The passage in. question occurs inthe onclsion ofthe reflection on the oon I bs follows gh an pit: What fancon act moon in etn rely form? newer: Whatever function iit that the earth pertorms. So ch leg 6 cirain te moon inion ow nigh ais sett acted for ff, Sd he moon wees how tyes geese fein hg se of ou eat ge ows ov tbe Worlt afr. The Moo 1326it) STP PEC The real houseftiend ofthe earth isthe moon, Who would ven- ture fo say, with words few and inentably too crude, what in ths image are the chars ug fo the ous end ust asthe moon ia Taking brings a tote light 50 Hebel, tbe sarily house ten, hang aig tsk bs Sees sare ‘at 8 sft aswell The moon brings hight inco our nights. Buc it has not li he lg it brings. The gh only the reflection of the ight fhe moon prenoisty rece fom the sun whose ince es ‘The reflection of the sun is passed om by the moon to the earth ia 4 softened glow; this glow i he poetic nage of that saying which aadresed t0 the housetiend 50 that he, ths lumated pases 02 ‘Wha adds to bin to hose who Gall on earth thi in everything the nous fiend says he guards what essential 0 which humans as dwellers are entrusted, yt of whieh they ar al fo9 {ay obivou nthe sunba ‘The hovse rend ke the highest-ranking official nigh watchman, the moon, is one who stays avate the whole night through. He ches over the right ind of rex for the dele he watches ot Tor what threatens and discs ‘As the fst calendarmaker, the moon matks th hourly passage of time. So too does poetic saying lea the way for moral ithe pac sage from birthtoderth v aon 3 house ind watches how boys kis gil. Nis observing is one of wonderment, nots curious giping. The house cad ses to ‘Martin Heidegges/trans. by Bruce V. Foltz and Michael Heim_95 that lovers ae provided with soft radiance, » noone splendor Ach mter merely eal nr only Besvealy,burbot,esboth Spinel nepal Feb would han ws eid the nature ofthe howe fend from the geste a tenon tenn ae ind one Und area angle uniquely revved tod at ose wakeel shining that put all ings ina sof hardly noc ihe “Ts correspon to wha Hebe sys about hel a house fea Tee and teks he pees a ie golden kere” (99) no is st. HS und reflections” “or the Hhcsh howseiend walks sea yp tod down the Rhine, ovis ino many 4 window, sano ane fe iim, be sis in many tavern, and no one know hn goer ane Tri or two: ar 8 edd with many goo! fellow and he et no neon to who he "Thus the house end thinks many thing long with wha he says cos devne rece and ye eet ie pene a Eigen) go und Asis sate atthe end of onc ef the calendar sores in Uhis the house fend thinking something, but he dosnt sy ie" ‘Cain the howe‘lend aso knows whither his ying speaks, tarply “out tothe bi marketplace ofthe world and of fe" (iy ia) at rt you dost nots very much how abrays someone ing and snot i coming esl you hoaly ie yoorel arog ‘Sify iferent peopl than wer threat “The howeftcnd uso knows quite wel how exenialy theif of aortas determined and ce bythe word. inal rom Sep tener 1808 Hebel wats: “A le prt of oor hfe wa winding {trough word (gong) which i plssaney or tnpleaenly confor ing, and most of out ware ae cword war” Cetin, p. 372) ssn end get fo i we eve though bi To surive tis var of words Tice! ot wane 6 Tete Resncr (Jly 20, 1847, Leon pe 543). “on kw what it ales to place what tas toe dfs eruinandlnce nto the uth and city ofthe ves. and we fight add, 9 rena "inconspicuous an snaberae iodo (Regus 16,1817, Lee p36?) or thse mame of be Noue'iend. "Around the tame dine Hebel agin lucidted the ame when herve (o Justis Kemer, Octobe 24, 1917, Lorem, p30) that wih same ike this “you can suey pea beste Kare wan te reader and uncetemonieay pul his ep in Uc uniemonstanve sping which aves what hs to sy in the umeid, the fdendinss of te Howse end ows out toward hs Teader In such ying, the howe end find and preserves aver Tency tothe dvelingof morals inxmch a fe ents into the house ft world and is Sonehcet a gest of the word st he were ot really poe,96 Hebel — Priend of the House "Hlouseriend” ~ that i the distantly foreseing and at once self slsgusing name for that which i essential to what we usually calla pote ‘The poet gathers the world into a saying whose word remains a softly restrained shining ia which the world appears if being caught Sight of for the fist time. The house fiend wishes neither to insteact ror to educate. He lets the reader have his way 20 that he may oa his ‘own attain that predeliction forthe essential toward which the house. fiend himself inclines in order that he may speak with us. What sore of conversation does the friend of the house, of the hhouse that i the world, have in mind? Concerning what does the hhouse‘iend wish frst to speak? "Answer: Concerning that vith ‘which he himself begins his sayings in the Little Treasury. These are the “General Reflections on the World-Edifice” Hebel concludes this introduction with the sentence: "And s9 the houseiend will ‘ow preach a sermon, fist, about the earth and about the sm, after that about the mooo, after that about the stars” ‘A sermon? Indeed. Yet we must pay close attention to who is preaching here, ‘The house-tiend, not the minister. But the pot who pretches is a poor poet ~ even if we understand the old wond “preach” in thoughtful manner. "To preach” (Predigen) is the La tia pracdicare. Te means: to recite something to someone (crus vor Sagen), and thus to bring news, and 0 to make known or renowned (ubmen) and ts to let what i to be sshd appear in ts shining, Tis “preaching is the essence of poetic saying. ‘Accordingly, Iebel’s Reflections on the World-Edifice” are poet- ic. There is ris in asserting this, for Hebel’s own intention and sate. ‘ents seem to speak against it. Yer Hebel wished, through the "Re: fections” mentioned, to introduce his calendar readers to 2 better Keowlege ofthe wosdeifice so ato fee them fom thee neglect ul gnorance ‘The fits page of the Little Treasury begins withthe following sen ences (1,268) Everythings ine forthe gene tader when b's sting home among fan [at ountins and tes with his fay and fends when bes ing | beer inthe Iocl ter and he docs’ pve ira single foher moog ut when the Sn ts aly ins gue majesty. be Enow nt when “See aloes wen eed ei a its ane there i hides ts light thoughout rpht and sa wife sere fathay ie mn ins ts way to he mores ef dawn. Ov when he aes oe ‘ound ple and thin one tne, and round an al sate apne Wet ot how this comes about and when he lols pinto «tf lalate 4d the ene twinkle more beastly and joyily than theater be lus thy seal therefor his take Andy he ely doce Koo gee wha hey want Good fen, fis nor commend cose once a one ys and never uk what meas, ‘Martin Heidegger/tans. by Bruce V. Folt and Michael Heim 97 “he house rend wants 0 nine i reader to poner what man fea onthe jogs coins mate eres ‘Ste wnt” Reet pac mo te Ngpcenel by he “Phys astonomers of aver rat Ii Selene, and, foremos mong these, bythe “goodly Copernicus famely in tues diygames andy, We dlberneciy sythe ome icnd ale shows fut nies ean. He doc er'Gowere tse nino ints conception of mature. fee, oe Tots cn ic the eje toa ntare tte calsaey ta the ae tie he bing forts repented bck io te ple aureus ste mie of et Scat hence sts wall ar more sain then ares hicwecfan seta tlerentu scene, Theatr Sen's nua neve grove des ut of rose on ter. git api or apesly i the hich he snc Geek shes sae ga the muse “ply he gad rece al a fein fa presence an sbsening "The atraltatere that Epa ata of he sum, tbe on ofthe sta ics ieee Ipalifeses suns they dye by somanenting ete they Celoutses of te wert” Although wth sone enighenmene eee enue the sun tres tobe hough ns opera tran senting to two of Hebets poems nonetets eaia = trina! mre that “unconmon woman’ rom whom. “all Then warmth comes" whom everyting beg for sing” and "epetheles fran so gneows an ead ‘Des Hehe amfort he sur ion peasant woman exe, or oes she simply af sch woman snd mand fst oe 0 ft then the sun andthe sof natal are sine spon ‘deed Gout nhs review of Heel Aleman Poors writes she sth Sansone he bjs af nature Ica pess a the most nave and paces ate, thorugh ene he sn eae Ss the abe ticpe, wie oe conan athe gh of ‘ip anys ia noe ih in nou Sefand cuted ipagstion Chore Ticbel couneres the universe. Ths judgment sounds harsh, and yet Saumied tobe en ve teen aches prceely upon Juston nich comnualy ied the ner though od pocey of fmt si then, that we a wel, nd alte moreso we of oy, smut appresate erty of pet questioning” "Whats worthy OF question i that which has meanwhile feast fel inte ovethngiSimesurble an pune, epg Sur ae ery to we know ne ere ‘What is worthy of question is that foe which we today do not yet98, Hebel ~ Friend of the House ven know the right name: that the technologically dominable nae ture of science, andthe natural nature ofthe accustomed, and like ike historically determined dvveling of man, ae esenguged from one another as two alien resins, and with constant acceleration sre "cing even frther pare What i worthy of question is thatthe calcusbilty of nature is offered ate sole Ney tothe mystery ofthe world What is worthy of question i that calculable nature, a the supe poseily true worl, eles upon every teflecton and tpwaton ‘an, changing and hardening human Meation into @ mete calculs five thinking. ‘What is worthy of question is that natural nature is degraded into the milly ofa mere product of out fancy (eines Phontaege blac), anid no longer even addrenes the poet. What is worthy of question i that poetry itself sno longer able to bean exemplagy for of truth. AIL ofthis may aso be sad a follows; We are errant today in a world which i 4 howe without a frend, that is, which locke that howseiend who in equal manner and with equal force i incined toward both the techaologcally constructed worl-edfice and the Wat as the howe for more orginal dwveling Missing that fiend of the house who is able to feentist the caleulabity and technology of mate 10 the open mystery of «newly experince aturalnes of nature ‘This house friend, to be sure, counties the universe. But thie sountifying has the character of that building which thik in the ‘lection of « more orignal dweling of man Needed for this are builders who lenow that through atomic em egy man does not lve, but rather perishes a best that, an mse 280 lose hinselt (ee eten) even when atomic enery is used only for peaceful purposes, and when these purposes alone Tema exes. plary for hi every goal and calling. In contrast to tis, genuine builders consider such mere survival to be no real dwelling ata. For man “dwell, "fhe dwells in the words of Holdelin, “poetically {pon this earch" Johann Peter Hebe is the poet in the form of the house-end. To be sure, we of today can no longer return tothe world experienced by Hebel a hundted and fifty yeas ago neither tots ineact rset, ‘nor tits limited knowledge of nature We ean, however, notice that, and how, what is poetic in the welling of man needs the poet who is fiend ina lofty and wide "aging sense frend fo the howe ofthe worl Ne tan look ahead, to ‘where Johann Peter Hebel beckons when he thinks of the poet asthe house-trend who brings to lnguage the house of the worl forthe dwelling of man, ° MMEMSEE ‘Martin Heidegger/trans, by Bruce V, Foltz and Michael Heim 99) es oe ee poutine ee ure ne waar receieesto rin marae Site re oat eee ec Fling to tnguage® means: 0 rac’ what was formerly unspoken, Ser ee cral, r cinad eye Se ig ore ee eee Bote seta dupmer tae rece fer Aor oe eae "Po this day, fey have quite fathoned what is concealed in Johana eee ar eae ee eat Si ngesih Sie, cero metaen iy eta se oan Thi core nea ee gee ee ard ome ea ee ih eat Se ae nee eee ee ie Poputir mana poste’ The mystery of te of the Litle ae fo hl eee tetera Pe net Maree sro ft se pa Sor ke ae TS a eine Tes? mo cas Seg aa a a ire omen ae ee pore par eae raciae Seema Tei aattsie rien = ee ome pate a pate ae Cerca eiee, tarmac eer met ier Se ake ee aa ieee i repr to te lngage tha bas grown istocaly— ht ieee ae ho a ar a Se ee eee kee esis sr ek pees TET yw tn ute omar cnt Cis act te a ented ce a Seti i we a re cit nau oeeimere cra as lien erg eben an rocks eae Bet aeaity eae eceae te ighene as, ee aot ee oe100 Hebel — Friend of the House 0 information is diven to extremes, We are no doubr acquainted with this proces, yet we fall to consider what te meas, We Inout that, in conection withthe conmmacton of electron bre, not ‘only calculating machines but so thinking and taslating machines axe now being bul, Yecall calculating, in both che narrower aod tie Sroadec sense. ll thinking snd wanting, move inthe cenen of language. By means of those machines jst mentione, te guage ech come stay . “he language machine, in the sense of the technical complex of ‘alelaing nd eransating machines is diferent from the spesking ‘machine are acquainted with te te inte form of a opare fs which tecords and reproduces ot speaking. an consequently doesnot yet intrude into the speaking of anguape el. On the contrary. the language machine rege and adjusts fom the begining the mode of our pone usge of langage though rnechaneal energies ‘and functions, The langage mashise i and shove all, ssl becoming ~ one manner in wach modern techno. logy contios the most and the word of language ss sh, ‘Meanwhile, the impression i sill insined thee man sche mas- ter ofthe language machine. But the th ofthe mater mig wel be thatthe langage machine taxes lnguge ino Ws manages ahd this masters te sence of an “The elation of man eo langage iin the midst of «transformation the consequences of which we have not yet wegicd. Nor can the course ofthis tansfomnation be dry halted” Moreover, pro eds inthe mos profound sence Te muse certainly be granted that in everyday living language ap- peatsas a means for commanicaton an iss such s meas that S enplosed in the commonplace relationships of He There are het ears ors th commongie Gane cls these othr reladonahips the Mleeper” ones and says of lngeages Sn ordinary tees do wks inpoversed ewan ene vee only sgily superical relationships As soon a8 the talk & of espe relations, another Language ate ener in ~ the poetic” Johann Peer Hebel named these deeper rltons when he once wrote "We replant which — whether we care to alm itt oot tees or not — must ascend with our roots in the earth, in onde Bloom inte eter snd bet frie The earth ~ this word in Hebel's sentence designates ll that which 2s isle audible, or palpable oppor and surrounds, Kindle ad fans us the tenzuous The ete the sky) ~ this wor! in she’s sentence designates all we pereie, but not with our seme-corgane =the nonsensuet, See in api ‘But the pathway (eg und Steg) between tbe depts of the per Martin Heideggee/trns. by Bruce V. Foltz and Michael Heim 101 enna andthe ego then spel sega $y arora A web of ngage sounds nd ecunds a vos Waa aight gael el an cee ined eee ee eer i eet meaning Gn) ol ands SMS et te ol ences pe oe Ne ee ees ls open ein OU ait" spoce ch al tone he oy, eat ee oie Mana "Feet Jon fer tl il nde ade Ble Seeeeeeeeee eee enna Se ri be a eel hn end Uelour ofthe well ohuon Ptr Hebel end ofthe owe