![]() ![]() ![]() Enlightened man's quest to overcome the primitive forces of nature demanded that he deploy entrepreneurial power over men and patriarchal power over women and children. Moreover, the drive for domination that Horkheimer and Adorno found at the core of western reason contained a gendered dimension. ![]() The values of calculation, quantification, and exchange that form the heart of bourgeois thinking are essential to social processes that seek to master nature. Adorno argued that the Western project of enlightened thought - which they distinguished from "the Enlightenment" as a historic period - conflated the technical domination of nature with the social domination of people. In their classic work Dialectic of Enlightenment, German Critical Theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Armitage (Department of History, University of Kansas)Ī Dialectic of Domination: Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution ![]() The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. ![]()
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