Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents
Evidence
There is no such thing as a superior language or benchmark idiom. Every language is an instance of the speculative. Philosophy’s role is to show how, in each language, the essential is said and exhibited through the idiom’s accidents. By working only on the natural language and shunning all arti- ficial and foreign terminology, philosophy establishes the spiritual character of the linguistic examples. Far from imprisoning thought within a circle, the labour of philosophy ushers into language, as into philosophy, the unexpected event of language and of philosophy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1161
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s brain work — this is the plasticity default: no privileged medium, formation through accidents rather than essence. — connects to: The established language already contains the terms for its own critique — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 702; Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1137; Attempts to purify language of metaphor are doomed and futile (+4 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1137 - Language can never directly express our immediate sensory experience because words are inherently universal
#corroborates(0.80) - Every person already philosophizes; critique must renovate existing thought
#expands(0.78) - Attempts to purify language of metaphor are doomed and futile
#corroborates(0.75) - Pastiche enters where language’s failure to coincide with objects has already been structured.
#expands(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 330