Editing Martin Heidegger (section)

===Language<!--'Language speaks' redirects here-->===
In ''Being and Time'', language is presented as logically secondary to Dasein's understanding of the world and its significance. On this conception of worldhood, language can develop from prelinguistic significance.{{sfn|Inwood|1999|p=208}}

Post-turn, Heidegger refines his position to present some basic words (e.g., ''phusis'', the Greek term that roughly translates to "nature") as world-disclosive, that is, as establishing the foundational parameters in terms of which Dasein's understanding can occur in the specific ways that it does. It is in this context that Heidegger proclaims that "Language is the house of being."{{sfn|Inwood|1999|p=209}}

In the present age, he says, the language of "technology", or instrumental reason, flatten the significance of our world. For salvation, he turns to poetry.{{sfn|Inwood|1999|p=209}}

Heidegger rejected the notion of language being purely a means of communication. Language construed us such, he believed, would form the basis of an age of technology, the digital thought processes of which would only use language to organise and communicate the coverage of that which exists. Thinking in terms of calculation and digital processing would put man at odds with language, at the centre of everything that exists. If man would believe that they would have language at their disposal, that they would be the one to use it, then, Heidegger believed, man would completely miss the core tenet of language itself:<ref>''Wegmarken.'' GA&nbsp;9, S.&nbsp;75.</ref> "It is language that speaks, not man. Man only speaks if they neatly correspond to language."<ref>''Der Satz vom Grund.'' GA&nbsp;10, S.&nbsp;143.</ref> In this way, Heidegger wanted to point out that man is only a ''participant'' of language that they have not themselves created. Man is bound within a sort of process of transfer and may only ''act'' with respect to anything the language conveys.

In this, however, Heidegger does not think in terms of [[philosophy of culture]]: The [[tautology (language)|tautology]] of the formulation "'''language speaks'''"<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (originally in German "die Sprache spricht") is his way of trying to prevent the phenomenon of language to be used with respect to anything else than language itself. In line with his unique thinking, he is seeking to avoid having to justify the language by anything else. In this way, language could for instance never be explained by the sheer transmission of acoustic sounds, or speaking. According to Heidegger, language is rather difficult to fathom because we are too close to it, hence we need to speak about that which usually remains unmentioned because it is just to close to us. His work "Unterwegs zur Sprache" (''On the way to language'') is an attempt to reach "a place we already are in."<ref>''Unterwegs zur Sprache.'' GA&nbsp;12, S.&nbsp;199.</ref>