Dasein - Monoskop

206 PART III
World, illumination and concealing it. This lighting and hiding
proffer of the world is the essential being of Saying. 281
The tension that is essential for language is sometimes also described
by Heidegger as one between the world and a thing. To understand
this point we need to recall that language and world are as inseparable
as are thing and word. From this it follows that just as language
cannot be made accessible to us in toto, neither can the world be
made accessible in this way. Furthermore, in every word the whole of
language is present since every word is a word only within one particular
language. This leads then, finally, to the idea that equally in
every thing the thing's own world is present. A thing too is possible
only within a particular (linguistically interpreted) world. Heidegger
can claim, accordingly, that rather than speaking of the world and
a thing, we should speak of the "thing-world" and a "world-thing".
Their relation is couched by Heidegger—notwithstanding his opposition
to dialectic—in an almost Hegelian way as a unity of identity
("Innigkeit", "intimacy") and difference ("Sc/ucd", "separating"):
... The world and the thing do not subsist alongside one another.
They penetrate each other. In doing so they cross a
middle ground between them. ... In the middle ground between
the two, in this in-between [rfas Zwischtn of world and
thing, in their infer, separation rules [... im Zwischen von Welt
und Ding, in ihrcm inter, in diesem Untcr-, waltet der Schied].
... The intimacy of world and thing has its essence [west] in
this separating of the in-between, has its essence in the intimate
separating [Unter-Schied] 2 * 2
What enables this relation of unity and difference is, again, language:
"Language has its essence [tresf] in being the happening of the intimate
separation of world and things." 283
In order to approach further the connection between language
and illumination, it is useful first to formulate theses B-2 to B-4
(some modifications to theses L-2-L-4 are necessary for reasons that
will become clear as we proceed):
(B-2) Being discloses to us what a being truly is.
(B-3) Being is a happening, (a "message").