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    It is not the case that Derrida's demand for linguistic purity is not ethical, political, or social in character.

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    • 1.Derrida's own texts (notably 'Monolingualism of the Other') explicitly link linguistic dispossession to colonial power and political identity formation.
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    • 2.A demand rooted in suffering under imposed linguistic norms cannot be cleanly separated from the political conditions that produced that suffering.
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    • 3.The private/political distinction Derrida invokes is itself deconstructed in his political writings, undermining any sharp separation between idiomatic law and social normativity.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that no linguistic norm can be genuinely private, since meaning is constituted through shared practice.
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    • 2.If Derrida's demand for purity functions as a law—even an idiomatic one—it necessarily presupposes an intersubjective linguistic community against which deviation is measured.
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    • 3.A demand that structures one's public writing and critical judgments about texts is functionally ethical regardless of its subjective phenomenology.
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    • 1.Derrida explicitly states his demand for purity does not inspire judgment in him.
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    • 2.The demand is described as a compulsive, suffering-producing response rather than a normative stance toward others.
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    • 3.It operates as a private, idiomatic law the language entrusts only to him.
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