immanent critique
Philosophy and Sociology
noun
A method of critical analysis which uses an idea, philosophy, or system's own premises and principles to identify contradictions and ideological biases within it, e.g. by exposing inconsistencies between those premises and principles and the historical reality underlying their development.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in American Journal of Theology.
- evap.
- evaporable
- evaporate
- evaporated milk
- evaporating dish
- evaporation
- evaporative
- evaporative cooling
- evaporatively
- evaporator
- evaporite
- evapotranspiration
- evapotranspirative
- evasion
- evasive
- evasively
- evasiveness
- eve
- evection
- Eve hypothesis
- Evelyn, John
- even
- even-aged
- even as
- (even) a worm will turn