Adorno held that purified art converges with nature rather than alienating from it.

Evidence

Art attempts, using human means, to make what is not human speak. The pure expression of works of art, freed from reifying disturbances, as well as from so-called natural materials, converges with nature, just as, in the most authentic creations of Anton Webern, the pure sound to which these works reduce themselves, by force of their subjective sensibility, transforms itself into natural sound. Admittedly, it is the sound of a nature that has become eloquent; it is the language of nature, not merely the reflection of a part of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2734

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Adorno’s concept of the language of nature as the telos of modernist art.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s late aesthetics frames mind and nature as mutually redeemable rather than opposed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2214