Sage And Language Homeland: Research On Martin Heidegger’s Aesthetic Ideology In His Later Years

Martin Heidegger’s questions concerned with philosophy and aesthetics arebased on three basic dimensions, namely, being, truth and language, for which hepursued in different times. At his early age, what he sought for was being, middle agefor the appearance of truth and late age for language homeland. Basing on poeticdwelling contained in human beings’ language, Heidegger probed language andexplained language under the relationship of being and language. Focusing on“poetic language” or “language poetic feature”, Heidegger started his theoreticalexplanation. The question that why being was mentioned and how to explain wasbased on two aspects: on one hand, it could be recalled from the origin of ancientGreek ideology; on the other hand, it was carried out through clearing up variousideas of prevalent custom. Only through the fundamental explanation of these twoaspects and mentioning problem of being again could it be possible to conductmeaningful solutions. As a result, Heidegger attempted to mention being again withthe idea of Phenomenology and fulfill the close question to the significance of being.In1950’s, Heidegger proposed the idea of “dwelling in language”, which was thenatural presence of “poetic nature” from1930’s to the end of1940’s. It was necessaryto “start the path” through “dialogue between thought and poem” if human beingswanted to learn “how to dwell in language theory” again. In the “theory of humanbeings”,“thought” and “poem” are two real or “outstanding” presences, both of whichessentially “explained sage by echoing from sage”. The only difference was that theywere nothing but “sage full of thoughts”, or “poetic sage”. The survival of humanbeings is a kind of dwelling, which is only stay, protection and guard, therefore, theopposite of survival is the situation in which human beings cannot dwell, namely, thesituation of being homeless, which contributed to merits and accomplishments inHeidegger’s conclusion. If dwelling is pursued and obtained only for oneself, it wouldbe even far beyond the nature of dwelling, which was also regarded as non-poeticdwelling by Heidegger. The dwelling influenced by contribution of merits andaccomplishments is still non-poetic dwelling, which originated from human beings’ survival, themselves and the utilitarianism of human beings instead of being.