Translation is a being transposed into an encounter with what is foreign about a foreign language in rendering a linguistic text or utterance into one’s native language so that it can be expressed in another language. But Heidegger thinks of linguistic translation as involving a transformed relation to what is foreign within one’s own native language and condition by way of this encounter. Although Heidegger does not offer a “translation theory” in the same manner that he does not offer an “aesthetics,” beginning in the mid-1930s he becomes increasingly concerned with the question of translation, especially as it pertains to the “spiritual” affinity he understands to prevail between the Greek and German languages.