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On Japanese Things and Words: An Answer to Heidegger's Question

On Japanese Things and Words: An Answer to Heidegger's Question COMMENT AND DISCUSSION Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles It has been over thirty years since my high school teacher of philosophy, Professor Dino Dezzani, recommended a book from which to begin my study of philosophy: Martin Heidegger's (1889­1976) Unterwegs zur Sprache (On the way to language [1959]). Evidently he was aware of my interest in literature and thought that Heidegger's discussion of words, things, and poetic language would give some sort of direction to my naive and youthful questions of what literature is about and what I ¨ should hope to find in it. The impact that Heidegger's book had on this young student was much greater than my professor could ever have imagined. I would hardly have committed myself to the study of Japan were it not for my reading of ``A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer,'' which appears in On the Way to Language. The dialogue is a fictional reconstruction of an actual meeting that Heidegger had with Tezuka Tomio (1903­1983), a Japanese scholar of German literature who visited the German philosopher in Freiburg at the end of March 1954.1 In the dialogue the Inquirer (Heidegger) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

On Japanese Things and Words: An Answer to Heidegger's Question

Marra, Michael F.
Philosophy East and West , Volume 54 (4) – Sep 17, 2004
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COMMENT AND DISCUSSION Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles It has been over thirty years since my high school teacher of philosophy, Professor Dino Dezzani, recommended a book from which to begin my study of philosophy: Martin Heidegger's (1889­1976) Unterwegs zur Sprache (On the way to language [1959]). Evidently he was aware of my interest in literature and thought that Heidegger's discussion of words, things, and poetic language would give some sort of direction to my naive and youthful questions of what literature is about and what I ¨ should hope to find in it. The impact that Heidegger's book had on this young student was much greater than my professor could ever have imagined. I would hardly have committed myself to the study of Japan were it not for my reading of ``A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer,'' which appears in On the Way to Language. The dialogue is a fictional reconstruction of an actual meeting that Heidegger had with Tezuka Tomio (1903­1983), a Japanese scholar of German literature who visited the German philosopher in Freiburg at the end of March 1954.1 In the dialogue the Inquirer (Heidegger)

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