Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 16:25:16 -0500
Subject: Re:  language and being


         Reply to:   Re:  language and being
Thanks to Michael and Henk for helping me with the "presenting passage." (Psychotherapists deal with a "presenting problem," I figure this is the philosophical equivalent.)

You gave some definition to a vague sense I had from the passage of a sort of making or building with language that might be called "rhetorical," in that one tries to "produce" something in language.  But t of course the "makers" of such language are those very "guardians of the House of Being" who can hardly be called rhetoricians in any of the usually construed senses of the word.  Yet, from the very start, rhetoricians ( not sophists) can be also thought of as those who "have" the sort of "rapport with language" Heidegger speaks of:

Our rapport with language is determined by the way in >which we belong to propriation as the ones who are needed and used."( Michael's translation).

But also

> propriation is, >appropriating-holding-withholdingitself, the quintessence of all rapport. 
It's the  enactment of this withholding that rhetorical impulse doesn't know "how to do."

Thanks,

Allen





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