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6 Martin Heidegger, ‘A dialogue on language’, in Martin Heidegger, On The
Way To Language, New York: Harper & Row, 1982, 15 (originated in 1953/
4 on the occasion of a visit by Professor Tezuka of the Imperial University,
Tokyo, ibid., 199.)
7 George Steiner, Heidegger, London: Fontana, 1992, 32.
8 Martin Heidegger, ‘The nature of language’, in Martin Heidegger, On The
Way To Language, New York: Harper & Row, 1982, 75.
9 Much of this has been relayed through Parisian circles. Yet, outside France,
the centrality of Nietzsche and Heidegger in post-war French thought is
rarely considered. It encompasses, beyond the more obvious case of Sartre’s
existentialism, Lacan, Bataille, Blanchot, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida,
Irigaray, Cixous, de Certeau; in other words, a series of overlapping critical
constellations that have induced the most profound internal revision of
western discourses over the last three decades. However, and this seems
hardly incidental at this point, Gayatri Spivak’s important ‘Translator’s
preface’ to the English language edition of Jacques Derrida’s Of
Grammatology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1977, is also steeped in
Heideggerean language.
10 Franco Rella, Il mito dell’altro, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1978.
11 ‘…we name this calling into question of my spontaneity by the presence of
the other ethics.’ Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity, Pittsburg:
Duquesne University Press.