Immanent critique

Immanent critique is a fundamentally hermeneutic method of dealing with texts.

The text is subjected by its own means, concepts, and figures of thought and their performativity to criticism.

In contrast to the point of criticism, in which the criticism of the text opposes another position that is " immanent criticism" an examination of the argument of the present position of the criticized text. It highlights here, for example, improper conclusions, the flawed reasoning of a thesis and the contradictions of a theory if it is not in itself conclusive or tautological.

With " text" are not only written statements meant.

Known for consistent "assessment of the works of its immanent criteria " is Walter Benjamin and exemplified his writing Critique of Violence.

Although immanent critique can be described as a method of deconstruction, but differs from the immanence of Gilles Deleuze.

The author and the founder of various philosophers are given again and again. How to Popper, the method have made the " immanent criticism" Adorno's own. However Immanent critique is a principle ancient method of philosophy. So Baruch de Spinoza has already in 1677 deals with the problems of interpretation of texts and presented to principles: " The main rule of interpretation of Scripture, then, is that one should ascribe to the text no doctrine which does not arise with complete clarity of its history, ".