Everyday language itself contains a utopian comprehensive rationality.

Evidence

Behind all this, there layas a kind of anthropological variant of Habermas’s conception of the reduction and rationalization of domination resulting from the development of a public sphere in politicsan original version of utopia, consisting of a restoration, mediated by science, of the comprehensive rationality which, in the natural hermeneutics of everyday language, is still, as it were, naturally at work'. What Habermas meant by the natural hermeneutics of everyday language was that everyday language is a medium that makes self-reflection possible: everyday utterances can, when necessary, be explained using everyday language. As speaking subjects, Habermas claimed, we always find ourselves in a communication which is intended to lead to agreement’, and thus to comprehensive rationality'. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2430</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Language intends, quite independently of the psychological intentions of the speaker, the universality that has been ascribed to reason alone. Interpreting this universality necessarily leads to the idea of a correct society. When it serves the status quo, language must therefore find that it consistently contradicts itself, and this is evident from individual linguistic structures themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2158 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I ask myself whether we are not obliged to take this thesis out of the philosophers’ hands. Language intends, quite independently of the psychological intentions of the speaker, the universality that has been ascribed to reason alone. Interpreting this universality necessarily leads to the idea of a correct society. When it serves the status quo, language must therefore find that it consistently contradicts itself, and this is evident from individual linguistic structures themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2158 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyday language inherently enables self-reflection and consensus-seeking toward comprehensive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2430; Language intrinsically intends universality, so serving the status quo makes it self-contradictory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2158; Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1161 (+2 more)

Related

• Everyday language inherently enables self-reflection and consensus-seeking toward comprehensive rationality (similarity 0.90)
• Language intrinsically intends universality, so serving the status quo makes it self-contradictory. (similarity 0.86)
• Horkheimer grounded reason’s universality in language’s inherent intention. (similarity 0.85)
• Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue (similarity 0.81)
• Reason itself requires a vocabulary beyond common usage. (similarity 0.79)
• Habermas grounded critique in language itself to escape historical relativism (similarity 0.79)
• If universalizing language cannot guide action, only raw experience remains unexpressed. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Everyday language inherently enables self-reflection and consensus-seeking toward comprehensive rationality #expands (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2430
• Language intrinsically intends universality, so serving the status quo makes it self-contradictory. #corroborates (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2158
• Horkheimer grounded reason’s universality in language’s inherent intention. #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2158
• Every language is already speculative and philosophy need only work with its accidents #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1161
• Ideology operates through language itself, not merely through false beliefs #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 698