In-der-Blog-sein

The People's Republic of Rock and Roll considers being-not-at-home-with-words.

These rather idle musings made me wonder whether it isn't the apparent "rootedness" of Germanic languages that makes them particularly fertile for existential philosophy. Are Nietzsche and Heidegger the fathers of philosophies of existence partly because Germanic creates this semblance of physicality and there-ness? Besides his fascination with Greek, Heidegger in particular often reads like a playful dissection of the German language. It is almost as if German had to become unhomely for Heidegger in order to realize that Dasein (existence) literally means Being there.

I think that capitalizing nouns in German just makes them seem more important.  ¶ 6:52 AM