Sadean Nature and Reasoned Morality in Adorno/Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment

Abstract

This article critiques Frankfurt School philosophical claims about the role of nature in the ideas of Sade and proposes a historical recontextualisation of both Sade's understanding of nature in relation to eighteenth-century materialism, and of Adorno/Horkheimers' understanding of nature in relation to twentieth-century practices of critical theory.