Horkheimer and Adorno traced the crisis of modern culture to humanity’s rule over nature

Evidence

The author’s [sic] basic aim,’ the prospectus read, `is a critical analysis of civilization in today’s phase of large scale industrial combines, manipulative control, technological advance and standardization. They look for the origins of the manifest crisis of modern culture in history and in the processes through which mankind established its rule over nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 357

Categorization

• XREF: The prospectus statement echoes the institute’s programmatic self-definition discussed earlier in this book, where Critical Theory’s aims were laid out. — connects to: Horkheimer grounded the domination of nature in a dialectic inherited from Hegel and Marx. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 155; Horkheimer and Adorno located culture’s decisive turning point in nature-domination, not capitalism; Horkheimer and Adorno replaced Marxian capitalism critique with a rational domination of nature thesis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1369 (+6 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; Horkheimer and Adorno located culture’s decisive turning point in nature-domination, not capitalism; Horkheimer and Adorno replaced Marxian capitalism critique with a rational domination of nature thesis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1369 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer and Adorno located culture’s decisive turning point in nature-domination, not capitalism #expands (0.95)
• Horkheimer and Adorno replaced Marxian capitalism critique with a rational domination of nature thesis #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1369
• Horkheimer and Adorno located capitalism’s core in the exchange principle #complicates (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1635
• Adorno’s paradoxes collapse into sentimentality through their reliance on a cultured nature #complicates (0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 329