"Wir sehen hiemit wieder die Sprache als das Dasein des Geistes" ?
Can you elaborate on this? Thanks!
So, Hegel basically says "language is the Dasein of Geist" in the Phenomenology. Now, most english translation makes Dasein into "being-there" but this hardly make the sentence more comprehendible. In fact, because Hegel uses the purposely "philosophical" term, one that was often used in Idealism terms. While "being-there" is a
literal translation, Heidegger would later use the term to mean something more like "being-in-the-world" as indicating a more
participatory role, something I guess one could call "active" Being, rather than just a passive being, say, mere existence.
So, to me, what Hegel is saying there, or what Hegel says to
me, is that language, that is, the action of using language to describe or communicate, is the active participatory creation of what we might call "spirit." Minus language, notions of temporality, intentionality,
meaning fall away, since even if they are thing-in-themselves absent language, what manner would we have to describe them minus it?
So, the sort of "spirit-world" or if you want it, a spiritual "Soul," is born out of language and language is the "Dasein," the actual participation in and so the actual Being-in-the-world, of something "transcendental." Consider, if the Spirit is transcendental, that is, is not "of matter/material" then where could it be in this world so that we might conceive of it? In the mind, it would seem, and the mind's manner of forming and articulating such mental content must be, in some way, language? Right?
Well, I hope this made some sense, but I just got up and haven't had coffee yet.
On a related note, I am trying to read Žižek's book on Schelling, since Schelling's work itself is a bit hard to find.