On the way to a “common” language? Heidegger’s dialogue with a Japanese visitor

Abstract

In Being and Time, Heidegger compares language to “the house of being", in A Dialogue on Language, the metaphor changes into “saying", and in Nature of Language he calls language as “the flower of the mouth". These different metaphors show the turning from ontological to cosmological aspect of Heidegger's view of language, and at same time reveal the possibility of cross-cultural communication.