Thought must recover its origin as an organ of nature against instrumentalization
Evidence
For Horkheimer, this was the concrete significance of the formula `recollecting nature within humanity’: an alliance between contemplation and instinct. At the last moment, thought felt its way back along the path through which objective reason had been overcome by subjective reasonback along the path of subjectivization, formalization, instrumentalization, desubstantiation of natureand asserted itself, as an organ of nature, against the instruments of the self-glorifying intellect. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1465
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies Horkheimer’s otherwise cryptic formula ‘recollecting nature within humanity’ as contemplation allied with instinct.
- XREF: connects to: Instrumental reason’s refinement is what destroys rational civilization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1307; Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254; Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 499 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Speculative philosophy emerges when thought renounces rigid partition and opens to nature
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 989 - Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real
#expands(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254 - Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature
#expands(0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499