The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement

300 pages | paper | 978-0-8207-0434-0 Reviews: "Van der Heiden clearly locates the problem of language around its double ability to disclose the essence of things and displace the essence of things . . . No one has penetrated the Heidegger hinge between Ricoeur and Derrida as much as van der Heiden has." — Leonard Lawlor, Edwin Erie Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University  Book Information: Throughout the history of philosophy, the truth of language has often been considered from the perspective of the distinction between language that serves the transparency and univocality to which philosophy strives and language that threatens this goal. Linguistic phenomena such as writing, metaphor, and poetic mimesis are often considered examples of the latter form, and as a result, treacherous to truth; they would exemplify the “seduction of language,” as Husserl beautifully called it. Against this background, it is remarkable that contemporary hermeneutics often inquires into the