Culture must be negated determinately as reconciliation with nature

Evidence

Culture has to be negated not abstractly, but rather determinately: as reconciliation with nature. This requires a dialectic which Adorno views as lacking in Marx’s work, particularly in his later writings on the critique of economy. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 983

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘determinate negation of culture’ as reconciliation with nature, the dialectical operation Adorno finds missing in Marx’s later critique of economy.
• XREF: connects to: Interiorizing culture requires devouring it as inorganic nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1056; Nature and history are inseparable and mutually qualifying — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1339; Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.80)
• What condemns mass culture is its false reconciliation, not its contradictions #complicates (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 123