MARTIN HEIDEGGER Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language Translated by Wanda Torres Gregory and Yvonne Unna State University of New York PressPublished by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2009 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Production by Kelli LeRoux Marketing by Anne M. Valentine Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. [Logik als dic Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache. English] Logic as the question concerning the essence of language / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Wanda Torres Gregory and Yvonne Unna. p. cm. -- (SUNY series in contemporary continental philoso- phy) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4384-2673-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4384-2674-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Logic. 2. Language and languages--Philosophy. 3. Philosophical anthropology. 4. History--Philosophy. I. Title. 10987654321 Published in German as Logik als die Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache © 1998 by Vittorio Klostermann. Frankfurt am Main. GA II, 38. Freiburg lecture, summer semester 1934, on the basis of Wilhelm Hallwachs’ transcript of the lecture. Edited by Giinter Seubold. The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Contents Translators’ Foreword Introduction: Structure, Origin, Meaning and Necessary Shaking Up of Logic § 1. The inner structure of logic a) Analysis 2 b) Assembly 2 c) Regulation 3 a) The self-sameness of what is represented 3 B) Non-contradiction 3 ¥) The ordering of reason and consequence 3 d) Form consideration 4 § 2. Logic as preparatory school for all thinking. Grammar and logic. Logic history § 3. The three common standpoints of the judgment about meaning, usefulness, and value of logic § 4. The necessary task of a shaking up of logic Recapitulation 8 First Part The Question Concerning the Essence of Language as Fundamental and Guiding Question of All Logic § 5. Objections against the procedure of taking the question concerning the essence of language as directive and guiding principle for the question concerning logic a) Language as object of the philosophy of language 12 b) Narrowing of logic through language 13 xi