Habermas’s paradigm dropped Adorno’s concern with the domination of nature.

Evidence

What was not plausible, however, was the exclusion of a further dimension which played an important part for Adorno: the beauty of nature. Another question was also disregarded, one which had not yet been reduced to insignificance by being raised and emphasized by a restricted paradigmthe question of the relationship between the domination of external nature and internal, corporeal nature and the connection between the domination of nature and social conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2746

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly resonates with Dialectic of Enlightenment’s dialectic of enlightenment and instrumental domination of nature — the very motif the reader has tracked through Horkheimer and Adorno. — connects to: Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746; Horkheimer and Adorno replaced Marxian capitalism critique with a rational domination of nature thesis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1369

Broader Connections