Bruns’ study of Heidegger’s final text on language, The Way to Language, comes under the sub-title Signs in which Finnegans Wake frequently features as a kind of paradigm. Indeed, Bruns discusses Heidegger’s writing on language, art and technology: “the worlding of the world, is the event of language”, in ways that seem to teem with allusions to Joyce’s language-use, structure and motif in Finnegans Wake, not merely because it cannot be called a reasoning of any sort (from the standpoint of progressive, systematic, calculative and ‘philosophical thinking’ it is “repetitious, opaque, pointless and unproductive”);) but the work of the work of art, in Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art, that is to say what happens with it, is in any case: “[…] explicated in terms of the doubleness of truth as disclosure and refusal or dissembling (Versagen and Verstellen).

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