The language-experience: Experiencing language

This dissertation examines the relations of self, thought, sense perception, temporality, language, and the world as such under the theme, the language-experience, to rethink the philosophical and socio-political position of language in the postmodern society of technology and science. Through the exploration and the reexamination of traditional ideas and theories of the terms, such as self, thought, language, and the world, this dissertation investigates the possibility of thinking language as experience, suggesting that language is an experience of being's becoming. This research argues that in its attempt to theorize that language crucially functions as experience in the sense of exposure to the objective world in the process of becoming of the human as such. By examining the terms, such as self, thought, and the world in the sense of experiencing language, this dissertation explores the relation of the subjective and the objective world and how the relation interacts in the process of being's becoming as experience in language, not as the phenomenological sense of experience but rather as the actual act of being in the world. Given that thought always involves language, by arguing that thought and the act of thinking indispensably and essentially involve some kind of sense perception or sensitivity, this study examines that experience of language in thought and the act of thinking is singular subjective experience in language, that is, the language-experience and that this is the process of turning the objective exposure to the outside or the objective world into the singular subjective experience of language.