Nature’s revenge is an incapacity for joy and self-esteem.

Evidence

Closer to everyday life than in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, but basically reiterating its ideas, Horkheimer saw the real revenge of nature as lying in the fact that an inability to understand nature was in itself an incapacity for joy, happiness, self-esteem and the enjoyment of achievements. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1470

Categorization

• XREF: This is ‘revolt of nature’ recast; connects to the pleasure-in-drudgery thesis of the culture-industry chapter. — connects to: Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1469

Broader Connections

• Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1469