Abstract

Martin Heidegger makes only infrequent remarks about writing. Despite the many pages devoted to speaking and language, the act of reading and writing is hardly ever thematized. In the majority of the remarks about writing that do exist, there is an undertone of decay and loss. Through careful analysis, however, it becomes apparent that this decay and loss are necessary and even the conditions of possibility for the origin of science and philosophy. The appearance of thought in writing is thus also an aspect of the history of being. This is especially clear in the connection between the hand and the writing. For Heidegger, writing is „hand-writing”. In the technical world, writing has been set apart from the hand. This belongs to the essence of technology, which is the Geschick des Seins in our time