The individual has lost the autonomy to realize the species

Evidence

The objective end of humanism is only another expression for the same thing. It signifies that the individual as individual, in representing the species of man, has lost the autonomy through which he might realize the species. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 33

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s species-being and the humanism debate Adorno conducts against existentialism — the individual no longer mediates the universal.

Related

• Individuality survives only as protected display, a nature-reserve spectacle contradicting its social role. (similarity 0.80)
• Adorno extended Marx’s species-concept by deriving individuality itself from economic relations. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mastery over nature becomes mastery over other humans, weakening the individual. #expands (0.85)
• The loss of individual personality can itself become an identity #expands (0.80)