Être chez-soi pour devenir autre. Approximations pour une pédagogie hégélienne de la langue

Abstract

In his speech of September 29^th, 1809, which he gave as rector of the Nuremberg Classical Gymnasium, Hegel dwelt on the "intimate" relationship that the subject in training has with his mother tongue, where the spirit is "truly at home". The aim of the present work is to question the philosophical stakes of such pedagogical proposal, to analyze the role of ancient languages, and to identify the relationship woven between language and identity. In order to do this, we will first have to reconstruct – with particular reference to the Jena period – the fundamental features of the Hegelian conception of language and its function as a sensitive and conceptual medium where the historical-cultural roots of the spirit are materialized. We will then return to the Hegelian discourse on language learning in order to understand how the education of the expressive faculties is linked to the construction of identity as well as to the opening of the spirit to the universal life of humanity.