The courageous people of the African-American civil rights movement desired and fought for freedom and justice with such ardour that those mighty abstractions, impossibly remote yet essential to life, became immanent, graspable, present in the world.
Since they scorned all social bonds and family authority, the conflict between parents and children became equally immanent, and it is this theme that is best reflected in Turgenev's novel.
The psychological content becomes such an immanent object only if it is the object of a so-called "self-presentation", i.e., in a reflexive experience in which the content presents itself, so to speak (see below 3.2).
The chapter emphasizes that with this procedure, the material becomes a solution-immanent function medium useful for designing innovative products.
The difference between the immanent and 'external' conceptions of God becomes particularly significant over time.
As Amon he is the "hidden god" (deus absconditus); in Re, the god of the sun, he becomes visible; as Ptah, one of the gods of the earth, he is immanent in this world.
In a New Kingdom hymn to Amon are the words: "Three are all gods: Amon, Re and Ptah... he who hides himself for [humanity] as Amon, he is Re to be seen, his body is Ptah". As Amon he is the "hidden god" (deus absconditus); in Re, the god of the sun, he becomes visible; as Ptah, one of the gods of the earth, he is immanent in this world.
In telling us to Dress Normal to assert our true selves, The Gap has managed to create what the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called "immanent reversal" where things become their opposite (Enlightenment become control, culture becomes the culture industry).
Baudrillard's concept of "immanent reversal" thus provides a perverse form of Horkheimer and Adorno's "dialectic of Enlightenment" (1972 [1947]), where everything becomes its opposite.
Recognizing, however, that if the separation between God and the world becomes too extreme, humanity risks the loss of communication with the divine, panentheism unlike pantheism, which holds to the divine immanence maintains that the divine can be both transcendent and immanent at the same time.
