Towards a renewed relationship with language: Ortega’s idea of concept as a bridge between pure nomination and enunciation within Heideggerian speech

Abstract

This work tries to make a philosophical bridge between the merely instrumental conception of language and that conception that understands speech from a much more essential and original sense. From the philosophical reflections of Martin Heidegger and José Ortega y Gasset, a path is proposed which allows generating a new relationship with language, and therefore with communication in its full sense. In this way, this work tries to build a philosophical link between Heidegger’s poetic language and an instrumental language built from it; an instrumental language that incorporates the naming power of Heidegger’s speech, but at the same time “descends” that ontological power to a communicative level. Ortega’s idea of “concept” will serve as the basis for building this contact and philosophical dialogue around language.