Harper & Row Editions of MARTIN HEIDEGGER Basic Writings Being and Tim On the Way to Language (On Time and Being Poetry, Language, Thought ‘The Question once MARTIN HEIDEGGER ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE ‘Translated by Perer D. Hertz PERENNIAL LIBRARY Ses Harper & Row, Publishers New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, SydneyOriginally published by Verlag Giinther Neske, Pfullingen, under the title Unterwegs zur Sprache, copyright 1959 by Verlag Giinther Neske, 8810151 (ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE. Copyright © 1971 in the English transla- tion by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. AUl rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or repro- duced in any manner whatsoever without writen permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fits- henry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. First Harper & Row paperback edition published in 1982. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, On the way to language. Translation of: Unters zur Sprache. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Languages~Philosophy. 1. Title P106.H3613 1982401 77-124708 ISBN 0-06-063859-1 (pbk, AAGR2 88.8990 109876 CONTENTS A DIALOGUE ON LANGUAGE : THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE a7 THE WAY TO LANGUAGE am WORDS (Translated by Joan Stambaugh) 139 LANGUAGE IN THE POEM A Discussion on Georg Trakl’s Poetic Work 159 f REFERENCES 199A DIALOGUE ON LANGUAGE