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Heidegger's Asian connection -- Language and being : central themes -- Philosophy, the ge-stell, and East-West dialogue -- The journey abroad and "the few other great beginnings" -- The early Greeks' confrontation with the Asiatic -- Heidegger's encounter with the Daodejing -- East-West dialogue and the question of language -- Japanese themes in "A dialogue on language" -- Do we have our eyes on the "same"?