Immanent critique is a method of analyzing culture that identifies contradictions in society's rules and systems.
Immanent critique pays close attention to the logic and meanings of the ideas expressed in the cultural text.
Immanent critique has its roots in the dialectic of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the criticisms of both Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx.
[2] The purpose of immanent critique, instead, is the detection of societal contradictions that suggest possibilities for emancipatory social change.
Immanent critique tries to find contradictions in the internal logic of the cultural text and indirectly provide alternatives, without constructing an entirely new theory.