The Medium of Spirit Versus the House of Being. Hegel’s Speculative Concept of Language Cover Image

Medium duha versus Kuća bitka. Hegelov spekulativni pojam jezika
The Medium of Spirit Versus the House of Being. Hegel’s Speculative Concept of Language

Author(s): Milenko A. Perović
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Epistemology, Semiology, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Hegel; language; Heidegger; de Saussure; speculative psychogenesis; speculative semiotics;

Summary/Abstract: The dispute over Hegel’s understanding of language is set through the implicit polemical relation towards Heidegger’s conception of language, the analytic tradition of understanding of language, as well as towards de Saussure’s linguistic understanding of language. Hegel speculatively – completely different from the tradition of philosophical thinking of language (Hamann, Herder, Kant, Humboldt and Fichte), and from the later history of understanding of language within the conception of philosophy of language and contemporary linguistics – understands language as the speculative intellectual structure. The ontological origin of language is not in transcendence, but in human immanence, in the evolution of a productive imagination into a productive memory. The author comprehends Hegel’s concept of language by the anthropological, phenomenological and psychological question concerning language.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 9-35
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian