Dialectic of Enlightenment centers on inner nature-domination, not outward nature
Evidence
Like the two excursuses, the remainder of the texts were also concerned with the domination of nature within humanity, and only sporadically and very abstractly with the domination of outward nature and with the connection between the relationship to outward nature and the relationship to inner nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 360
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies that the book’s ‘domination of nature’ thesis is primarily about inner nature, not external nature as commonly assumed.
- XREF: connects to: Horkheimer grounded the domination of nature in a dialectic inherited from Hegel and Marx. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 155; Kant’s sublime theory is complicit with domination; Recollecting nature in humanity was Dialectic of Enlightenment’s proposed remedy for nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer grounded the domination of nature in a dialectic inherited from Hegel and Marx. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 155; Kant’s sublime theory is complicit with domination; Recollecting nature in humanity was Dialectic of Enlightenment’s proposed remedy for nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination
#complicates(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826