Adorno’s philosophy of history held that transcendence is immanent in immanence.

Evidence

One of the most important of these ideas, after Adorno’s book on Kierkegaard, was increasingly the idea of elucidating nature by reconciling the mind (Geist) with it. This idea stood for the conviction that mythical nature, caught up within itself, and mythical mind, also caught up within itself, did not need to be rescued from outside, that transcendence was immanent in immanence. The way in which this was to be interpreted socially and historically was not mentioned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 207

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and glosses Adorno’s key philosophical conviction about reconciling Geist and nature — a reference-level formulation of his early position.
• QUESTION: What would the social-historical interpretation of this immanence look like, and why did Adorno leave it unstated?
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s critique of immanence aimed at the non-identical, the new, the transcendent — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1303; Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; Adorno’s immanent critique of German ontology aims at expressing the inexpressible without abandoning thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 628 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s critique of immanence aimed at the non-identical, the new, the transcendent — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1303; Adorno demanded a philosophy both concrete and transcendent to escape bourgeois immanence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; Adorno’s immanent critique of German ontology aims at expressing the inexpressible without abandoning thought. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 628 (+3 more)