ИММАНЕНТНОСТЬ

Immanence

One of the central concepts of traditional speculative philosophy and the modern idealist schools. The term in this acceptation dates back to Aristotle; in its literal sense it was first used in medieval scholasticism. The contemporary understanding of immanence was given by Kant.

Immanence, in contrast to transcendent, denotes the presence of a "thing-in-itself". Immanent criticism is criticism of an idea or system of ideas which proceeds from the idea's or system's own premises. An immanent history of philosophy is an idealist interpretation of philosophy as a process governed solely by its own laws and not subject to the influence of the economy, class struggle and social consciousness.