< late Latin immanēnt-em, present participle of immanēre, < im- (im- prefix1) + manēre to dwell, remain. Compare French immanent (14th cent.).(Show Less)
1. Indwelling, inherent; actually present or abiding in; remaining within.
immanent principle (with Kant), a principle limited to the realm of experience: opposed to transcendental principle.
2. immanent act (action) : an act which is performed entirely within the mind of the subject, and produces no external effect; opposed to a transient or transitive act. Now rare.
This distinction, formulated in Scholastic philosophy, is the connection in which the word most freq. occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries.In recent philosophy applied to the Deity regarded as permanently pervading and sustaining the universe, as distinguished from the notion of an external transcendent creator or ruler.
"In 'Rose' (directed by Rapp), the first and weakest play of the trio, the retreat from community is a comic immanence, which seems almost incidental to the antics of a mean-spirited superintendent inside the building, the anti-Communist rumblings outside it, and the chaotic, isolated high jinks of a Harpo-like nonverbal poltergeist called Marbles."
- John Lahr, "Stir Crazy: Delusions in Adam Rapp, Nikolai Gogol, and the Wooster Group", 7 March 2011 The New Yorker
No, I'm still not quite sure what he means.
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