Nature, red in tooth and claw
Continental Philosophy Review 40 (1):49-72 (2007)
| Abstract | “Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw” explores Adorno’s ideas about our mediated relationship with nature. The first section of the paper examines the epistemological significance of his thesis about the preponderance of the object while describing the Kantian features in his notion of mediation. Adorno’s conception of nature will also be examined in the context of a review of J. M. Bernstein’s and Fredric Jameson’s attempts to characterize it. The second section of the paper deals with Adorno’s Freudian account of internal nature. While arguing against Joel Whitebook’s view that Adorno needs a concept of sublimation, I contend that Adorno’s genetic account of the relationship between nature and mind enables him to respond to the Freudian injunction to displace the id with the ego with a view to fostering autonomy. In the final section of the paper, problems with Adorno’s ideas about external and internal nature are briefly discussed. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,701 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesEric S. Nelson (2012). Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature in Adorno. In Jerome / Giles Carroll (ed.), Aesthetics and Modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School. Peter Lang.
Deborah Cook (2006). Adorno’s Critical Materialism. Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (6):719-737.
Camilla Flodin (2011). Of Mice and Men: Adorno on Art and the Suffering of Animals. Estetika 48 (2):139-156.
Gary Chartier (2009). Michael J. Murray Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering . (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Pp. X+209. Isbn 978 0 19 923727. [REVIEW] Religious Studies 45 (3):370-372.
Harriet Johnson (2011). Undignified Thoughts After Nature: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Critical Horizons 12 (3):372-395.
C. Robert Mesle (2009). Michael J. Murray, Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (3):173-177.
T. J. Mawson (2009). Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, by Michael Murray. Mind 118 (471):855-858.
C. R. Dodsworth (2010). Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (4):823-825.
Sherrie Lyons (2009). Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. Philosophy Now 71:13-15.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads21 ( #58,767 of 549,124 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #37,390 of 549,124 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
