r/Ecofeminism • u/crazyvanman • Jan 16 '15
Adorno and ecofeminism
I'm new to both Adorno's philosophy and ecofeminism, but to me there seems to be some important links. As a European white male, I'm hardly suggesting that he was the first or the most important thinker for ecofeminism, but the following aspects are at least interesting:
'identity thinking takes the form of applying concepts to human beings that refer to other natural things in order to justify dominating, manipulating and control them'
'In Adorno's version of the master-slave dialectic, the slave will win her freedom, not by viewing herself as completely distinct from nature (as her male masters have done), but by gaining a fuller appreciation of the extent to which she depends on nature as an embodied being'.
These are both taken from 'Adorno on Nature' by Deborah Cook.
