...form of the romantic sickness. "Language speaks" is the way that Heidegger puts it elsewhere, not man. "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...language, while in fact language remains the master of man."5 Something very like organic self-sufficiency — once celebrated by romantics as the linguistic...

...de dire, c'est d'obliger a dire.' A less extreme version of this position may be found in Heidegger: 'Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...upon strange manoeuvres. Language becomes the means for expression . . .' The important point to note is that Heidegger envisages possible situations in...

...hear there? We hear language speaking."298 Heidegger also refers to language as "the master" of man: "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...language, while in fact language remains the master of man."299 For Heidegger, only the poet and the thinker, ie, Heidegger himself, abstain from trying to...

...is structured like a language' is very close to Heidegger's: 'Man acts as though he were the shapcr and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man' 2 Thus the scene of psychoanalysis is defined by a configuration of gestures alien to any other situation....

...carefully, while letting language itself speak, can the poet create a location in which Being may appear: Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of...of dominance gets inverted, man hits upon strange maneuvers. Language becomes the means of expression . . . Strictly, it is language which speaks. Man...

...of nonsense; such a judgment confirms for Heidegger the insufficiencies of the modernist worldview. "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...while in fact language remains the master of man. Perhaps it is before all else man's subversion of this relation of dominance that drives his nature...

...hypostatize language in the way in which the older Heidegger does in the following passage: Man acrs as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the mistress of man. . . . For strictly, it is language that speaks. Man first speaks when, and only when,...

...language that subverts our relation to Being has taken us over. "Man acts as though he were the shaperand master of language. while in fact language remains the master of man.""' The problem of truth posed by the hermeneutic circle of projective understanding has now become a problem...

...complete control over; language, in some sense, has control over us. Heidegger describes this as follows: "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...while in fact language remains the master of man." 23 The hermeneutical principle employed by Gadamer, that all interpretation is linguistic, derives...

...conceived of language as something "larger" than that which could be relegated to instrumental use. "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master...while in fact language remains the master of man." 3 Language is not something that we have complete control over; language in some real sense has control...