Hegel rejects ready-made philosophical idioms to preserve language’s alien character, not national purity.

Evidence

If Hegel shows that philosophical language, in its true form, implies the rejection of any ready-made philosophical idiom, it is not because he wants to retain the purity of a national origin, but because, contrary to expectation, he wants to preserve the strange and alien character of any and all language, that is, to preserve the irreducibility of its place and time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1153

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Derrida’s and the deconstructionist account of language’s irreducible alterity, and to the Saussurean arbitrariness-of-sign problem. — connects to: Hegel’s ‘foreign language’ critique targets jargon, not national tongues — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1152; Hegel held that philosophy needs no special terminology beyond the philosopher’s native idiom — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1136