The study Speech and Appearance briefly outlines the notion of speech and understanding in Heidegger's Being and Time, and then discusses the way in which early Heidegger is nowadays reciprocated by American normative pragmatism (Dreyfus, Brandom, Crowell, etc.). The problematic points of this reception make it possible to expose, in a small area, the more general difference between philosophies of language (communication) and philosophies of understanding that link language and the speech-like nature of experience to the temporality and situatedness of human being. This distinction, which has sustained and sustains much of modern philosophical discussion in extra-circular trajectories, Speech and Revelation aims to capture on the ground of a deepened notion of understanding. A guiding principle in doing so is an attempt to clarify and make new use of the widely accepted but little thought-out dissociation between language and speech. For it is only in the sphere of speech that it can be shown that to talk about a thing is not only to share meanings, but to be in the world with and against others.
Czech edition.