Nature and history are inseparable and mutually qualifying

Evidence

The youthful Marx expressed the unending entwinement of the two elements with an extremist vigor bound to irritate dogmatic materialists: ‘We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be considered from two sides, divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. Yet there is no separating the two sides; as long as men exist, natural and human history will qualify each other.’ The traditional antithesis of nature and history is both true and false – true insofar as it expresses what happened to the natural element; false insofar as, by means of conceptual reconstruction, it apologetically repeats the concealment of history’s natural growth. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1339

Categorization

• XREF: The nature-history dialectic runs throughout Adorno — this citation grounds the mature theory of second nature; connects to Habermas on nature as historically constituted. — connects to: Kant absolutized historical contradictions into nature, thereby affirming the status quo — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 215; Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 825; Humans unite vegetative and sensitive natures, not merely append one to the other (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142
• The brain is its history, not merely something that has one #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 27
• Culture must be negated determinately as reconciliation with nature #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 983