ter. Chatter is inauthentic speech, it is the talk about rather than the expression of Being; we have fallen away from being and the life has fallen out of our language. Language is used to allow communication along routes of unlimited accessibility of all things to all people, thus language is dictated in the public realm because it decides what is intelligible and what should be discarded. Language needs a place where it still has meaning and life. In The Way to Language, Heidegger declares that language speaks, and language says something when it speaks. Language addresses people and things in the world, acknowledging them as matters of concern; it shows and points. By showing and pointing, language introduces a capacity for beings and things to come into their presence in the world. Our world then becomes “the realm in which we dwell as the mortals, those who are needed and are used for the speaking of language” (Basic Writings 423). Thinking is of Being because it belongs to Being and listens to Being … “thinking is the thinking of Being” (Basic Writings 220). Through thinking, we see the truth of Being, and Being comes to language. However, Being is unthought because the thinking that reaches the truth of Being is only historical. “Assuming in the future that man will be able to think the truth of Being, he will think from ek-sistence. Man stands ek-sistingly in the destiny of Being” (Basic Writings 239). Man can only occur in his essence when he is claimed by Being. Only Being controls the introduction of Being into being, for man, through language, is only a shepherd of Being. Language is thus the home of man’s essence … I think that this language is laughter. KIMMMELAccording to Kimmel in Philosophy, Literature and Laughter: Notes on an Ontology of the Moment, laughter is the release of everything that once caused constraint and restraint. He is referring to a pur...
