Self-reflective thinking alone can give voice to repressed nature.

Evidence

Horkheimer and Adorno repeatedly emphasized that only self-reflective thinking could give voice to repressed nature; that giving support to nature was only possible by releasing its apparent opposite, independent thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2146

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Horkheimer-Adorno dialectical premiss: supporting nature requires its apparent opposite, independent critical thought.
• XREF: connects to: Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 330; Reflective self-recovery produces only distance and reflective nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 513; Society can escape nature’s compulsions by properly recalling its own nature.

Broader Connections

• Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330
• Reflective self-recovery produces only distance and reflective nothingness #contradicts (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513