Habermas traced Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s pessimism to an exaggerated notion of reconciliation with nature.

Evidence

The topos of surrendering self to an amorphous nature emerged in Horkheimer and Adornoin a Schopenhauerian form in Horkheimer and a sexual-utopian, anarchist form in Adorno. … In partial agreement with Popper, Habermas observed in both Horkheimer and Adorno a pessimism deriving from an exaggerated notion of reconciliation with nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 609

Categorization

• XREF: Links the Schopenhauerian and anarchist roots of each thinker’s version of nature-reconciliation. — connects to: Habermas accused the Dialectic of Enlightenment of conceding civilization requires repression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 609; Habermas’s paradigm discarded the domination-of-nature question Adorno had left unfinished — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 688; Horkheimer and Adorno traced the crisis of modern culture to humanity’s rule over nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 357 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas accused the Dialectic of Enlightenment of conceding civilization requires repression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 609; Habermas’s paradigm discarded the domination-of-nature question Adorno had left unfinished — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 688; Horkheimer and Adorno traced the crisis of modern culture to humanity’s rule over nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 357 (+1 more)