Hegel, Adorno and the origins of immanent criticism

‘Immanent criticism' has been discussed by philosophers of quite different persuasions, working in separate areas and in different traditions of philosophy. Almost all of them agree on roughly the same story about its origins: It is that Hegel invented immanent criticism, that Marx later developed it, and that the various members of the Frankfurt School, particularly Adorno, refined it in various ways, and that they are all paradigmatic practitioners of immanent criticism. I call this the Continuity Thesis. There are four different claims that interest me. (i) Hegel is the originator of immanent criticism. (ii) Hegel's dialectical method is that of immanent criticism. (iii) Adorno practises immanent criticism and endorses the term as a description of his practice. (iv) Adorno's dialectical method is fundamentally Hegelian. In this article, I offer an account of immanent criticism, on the basis of which, I evaluate these four claims and argue that the Continuity Thesis should be rejected

El trasfondo metafísico de la diferencia entre lo trascendental y lo especulativo

Beyond the doxographic presentation of the much studied passage "from Kant to Hegel", what the author discusses here is the process of thought that takes place in it. The connecting idea for the supposed overcoming of metaphysics becomes a process of the speculation itself in which the transparency of the critica! work of retlection in the Hegelian system also involves history.Más allá de la presentación doxográfica del tan estudiado "tránsito de Kant a Hegel", lo que se discute aquí es el proceso del pensamiento que tiene lugar en ese tránsito. El hilo conductor de la supuesta superación de la problemática metafísica se transforma en un proceso de laespeculación misma, en el que la transparencia del trabajo crítico de la reflexión del sistema hegeliano incorpora igualmente a la historia