Humanity’s immaturity means it has not yet been able to speak at all.
Evidence
I totally agree with the thesis about the antagonistic nature of every language that has yet existed … If humanity is still not yet mature [mündig], then it means that, in the most literal sense, it has not yet been able to speak; Kraus’s illusion was that it had lost the ability to speak. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 533
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Language itself is antagonistic because its speakers have not reached maturity, so speech has never fully occurred — reversing Kraus’s diagnosis of lost speech into never-having-spoken.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno held that humanity’s immaturity consists in its inability yet to speak — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2164; Lack is the deepest internal negation and appears only with human reality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 352; Silent majorities think but have been deprived of the means of speaking
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno held that humanity’s immaturity consists in its inability yet to speak — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2164; Lack is the deepest internal negation and appears only with human reality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 352; Silent majorities think but have been deprived of the means of speaking
Broader Connections
- Adorno held that humanity’s immaturity consists in its inability yet to speak
#corroborates(1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2164