Postmodern interpretation of language as an ontological essence

Agafonov E. A.

based on the analysis of the ideas of E. Kassir, M. Heidegger, R. Barth, J. Derrida, the article analyzes the rethinking of the direction of philosophical reflection associated with the establishment of linguistic dominant in the analysis of the problems of being. The author shows that in the philosophy of postmodernity, language is understood as an ontological essence, a true world in which the fullness of human existence reveals itself. The ontological approach to understanding the essence of language is considered as the methodological basis of applied research in modern social and humanitarian knowledge.

Keywords:language, being, cognition, meaning, speech, text, information, linguistic picture of the world, semantic field, postmodernism.