Language and Technique from Heidegger

the presupposition of Exhaustive Interlinguistic Translatability

Abstract

This paper exposes the connection between the modern or metaphysical conception of language and the essence of language from Heideggerian philosophy with mechanised, ordinary or instrumental technique and the essence of modern technique, that is, the belonging between both phenomena (in the ordinary aspect of both) and the exclusion or crisis that one generates in the other and vice versa. This putting into crisis will be observed where the essence of language cannot be internalised to its ultimate consequences by the essence of technique, and that same essence of language causes the essence of technique to break down and, therefore, illuminate where only technology is observed. To this end, we will question the presupposition of exhaustive interlinguistic translatability or of communicability without remainder, inherent in the modern and metaphysical conception of language.