The Idea of Natural History and some of its questions in Dialectic of Enlightenment, as well as in other essays of the same critical project, are sources of this paper, whose aim is to show results of a research about the relation between History and Nature by Theodor W. Adorno. It presents how the Author, an its hard dialog with dialectic tradition, criticizes both concepts in their antithetic appearance, to present a new concept of Second Nature. The sharing between Second Nature as Catastrophe, technique and education is thought to put in new terms Adorno's maxim that Auschwitz do not comeback.
Adorno, Theodor W.; education and autonomy; philosophy of history