Preparing for a Critique: An Implicit Dialog between Heidegger and Late Modern Linguistics

Abstract

This paper aims to prepare a broad discussion with general linguistics that would be articulated in the form of a critique (in the Kantian sense). The framework of this preparation will be the implicit dialogue that arguably took place between Heidegger and late modern linguistics. To carry out this preparation, I provide a brief definition of what is understood by late modern linguistics. I also present its constitutive features and what internal problems can be observed in it from Heidegger’s perspective. Finally, I deal with one of its fundamental features, namely, the problem of the distinction between the linguistic and the extralinguistic, which is discussed from the perspective of an interpretation of the Heideggerian analysis of some verses by Hölderlin.