Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GILSON DIONISIO DA SILVA JUNIOR

LANGUAGE IN THE THOUGHT OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER: THE POETIC MANIFESTATION OF THE WORD AND THE POET AS ITS GUARDIAN.

language, poetry, poet

Questioning about language is questioning ourselves, because we speak all the time and in different ways, whether with words, gestures and even in silence, which is why we are considered beings of language, because we speak language (HEIDEGGER, 2003, p. 7). In our dissertation work we will investigate the essence of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). It is this philosopher who tells us: “language speaks” (HEIDEGGER, 2003, p. 9) and it is to this speech that we must listen carefully so that it is also possible to understand human speech/saying. Understanding what the speech of language is is necessarily entering the language itself and thus experiencing it. Being in language and accessing its saying is also accessing its essence, however, it is fair to emphasize that essence does not refer to quiddity,1 the essence as it was understood by traditional ontology, but refers to the very exercise of an existence, as , according to Harada, “essence”, which has its origins in the German term Wesen, will have the dynamic flavor of “being”, (HARADA, 1970, p. 5), that is, it is something that vitalizes, that is in exercise, in execution . Entering into the speech of language implies understanding the genesis of an existence in the very act of existing, therefore, when understood in this way, language in Heidegger goes against logic, as it is an experience below common and everyday language, it is an entry into the language itself, in its essence, and it will be in poetry that this philosopher will find the access route to the speech of language, because according to him, it is in poetry that genuine speech is found (HEIDEGGER, 2003, p. 12), It is there that the word of language lives. To explore the question of language in its essence, we will be looking at Martin Heidegger's post-1930 texts, in which the question of language appears to be inseparable from ontological experience, according to the philosopher, “language is the house of being” ( HEIDEGGER, 2003, p. 127), man's first home.