Music symbolizes reconciliation between mind and nature, ending nature-domination
Evidence
Music here stood for the end of domination over nature, for a reconciliation between mind and nature which would prepare the way for a unification of internal and external nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 326
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the symbolic function Adorno assigned to music within the dialectic of enlightenment — reconciliation rather than domination.
- XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s thesis in Dialectic of Enlightenment that domination of nature is culture’s decisive turning point. — connects to: Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1263; Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape; Atonal music embodied a premature reconciliation of mind and nature for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1263; Music alone can harmonize the inner world with the outer soundscape; Atonal music embodied a premature reconciliation of mind and nature for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Music represents Adorno’s utopia of reconciled mind and nature
#corroborates(0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1263 - Twelve-tone technique is domination of nature within music
#complicates(0.87) - Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism
#complicates(0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396