Adorno’s negative dialectics lacks any sustained model of external nature.

Evidence

It was also surprising that none of these models was aimed at the phenomenon that always springs to mind at once in connection with the concept of the non-identical, or of the predominance of the object: external nature, dominated by man. … He had repeatedly confessed self-critically that he had no understanding of the natural sciences and was therefore not in a position to counteract the regrettable alienation of philosophy from natural science. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 638

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether Adorno’s admitted ignorance of natural science is a structural limitation of negative dialectics or a deliberate refusal of natural-philosophical speculation.
• XREF: Ties to the earlier Frankfurt School material on the domination of nature and the Horkheimer-Adorno nature-domination thesis.