Adorno’s late aesthetics merged the critiques of nature-domination and administered society.

Evidence

The critique of man’s domination over nature, and the critique of the administered society, were linked together in Aesthetic Theory in more detail than in earlier works to form a critique of a society which, through its reified structures, was refusing nature the socially mediated achievement of serenity it was longing for. … It was from this linkage that Adorno’s claim was derived that he was engaged in, or supporting, enlightened enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 685

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter’s treatment of the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s nature-domination thesis. — connects to: Adorno’s aesthetics unify the critiques of nature-domination and administered society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2736; Adorno’s late aesthetics frames mind and nature as mutually redeemable rather than opposed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2214; Adorno envisioned objectifying the subjective as art’s and society’s shared task — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that artworks are ‘protohistories of subjectivity’ integrating both critiques underlies Adorno’s whole late system.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s aesthetics unify the critiques of nature-domination and administered society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2736; Adorno’s late aesthetics frames mind and nature as mutually redeemable rather than opposed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2214; Adorno envisioned objectifying the subjective as art’s and society’s shared task — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 637 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s aesthetics unify the critiques of nature-domination and administered society #corroborates (0.99) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2736
• Adorno’s paradoxes collapse into sentimentality through their reliance on a cultured nature #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 329