Immanent critique necessarily aims at transcendence as its unnamed goal.

Evidence

Since all Adorno’s criticisms were aimed at producing evidence of `immanence’, the goal of his critique could only be termed transcendence, or simply: releaseinto the transcendent, into a realm free of intention, into what was new, unrestricted, open, non-identical. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 334

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the central term ‘immanence’ and its corollary ‘release’ in Adorno’s method.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s philosophy of history held that transcendence is immanent in immanence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 207; Immanentist philosophy rejects transcendence but often stays confined to elites; Immanent critique cannot function without some measure of transcendence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 453 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno’s philosophy of history held that transcendence is immanent in immanence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 207; Immanentist philosophy rejects transcendence but often stays confined to elites; Immanent critique cannot function without some measure of transcendence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 453 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Immanent critique cannot function without some measure of transcendence. #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 453
• For existentialist ethics, transcendence collapse into immanence is the absolute evil #complicates (0.73) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 427
• The lapse of transcendence into immanence is an absolute evil, whether chosen or inflicted #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 64
• Narcissism, romantic love, and mysticism are doomed attempts to transcend through immanence #complicates (0.71) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1770