Recollecting nature in humanity was Dialectic of Enlightenment’s proposed remedy for nature-domination

Evidence

The idea of recollecting nature in humanity, which recurred at numerous points in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as a prospective solution, pointed in this direction as well. Was the image of complete, undivided happiness not more vivid in the complaint against the spirit of domination over nature than in satisfaction with sublimated happiness? Was the idea of an ego which was simultaneously released from its bonds and able to preserve itself anything more than a demand for what was inconceivable, overlooking what was conceivable? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 360

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and glosses ‘recollection of nature in humanity,’ the book’s recurring prospective solution for escaping the domination of nature.
• DEEPTHINKING: The unresolved tension between undivided happiness and sublimated satisfaction is the load-bearing aporia of the whole book and resists any one-line summary.
• XREF: connects to: Culture and commanded labor alike rest on the compulsion to dominate nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 359; Dialectic of Enlightenment centers on inner nature-domination, not outward nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360; Nature-domination’s roots precede the Enlightenment in earlier rationalism and Christianity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 287 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Culture and commanded labor alike rest on the compulsion to dominate nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 359; Dialectic of Enlightenment centers on inner nature-domination, not outward nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 360; Nature-domination’s roots precede the Enlightenment in earlier rationalism and Christianity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 287 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Nature-domination’s roots precede the Enlightenment in earlier rationalism and Christianity. #complicates (0.72) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 287