For post-Kantian idealism, immediacy is an anti-philosophical defense foreclosing critical movement.

Evidence

Hegel reiterates his problematization of immediacy in his next work, The Science of Logic, noting the pretense of “being” as indeterminate, undifferentiated immediacy and specifying that philosophy necessarily begins not with this empty abstraction but rather with a more mediated “essence,” an actuality of being and reflection. Glossing this systematic program across both major works and beyond, Robert Pippin notes: “One way of putting the whole point of German idealism … is to note the denial by all those thinkers that there can be anything like ‘unmediated immediacy,’ an intuitive apprehension of pure being.” For philosophers in this wake then, immediacy has to be understood as a kind of anti-philosophical defense—an over-presence, over-identity, over-certainty that forecloses speculative and critical movement. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s ‘Antitheory’ chapter fight — this gives her the philosophical genealogy to rebut immediacy’s theoretical legitimacy.
• DEFINE: Characterizes immediacy as over-presence, over-identity, over-certainty — the philosophical term of art the whole book contests.