A essência da crítica: sobre o limiar da crítica imanente em Hegel

The article establishes a connection between the essay “On the essence of philosophical critique” and the Phenomenology of Spirit regarding the Hegelian elaboration of a concept of immanent critique. Firstly, it aims to contest some objections about the appropriateness of attributing this concept to Hegel. It shows then that immanent critique emerges in the Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit as an attempt to answer problems already present within the conception of philosophical critique, which Hegel had previously defended along with Schelling in the Critical Journal of Philosophy. According to the central hypothesis, the essay on philosophical critique contains fundamental elements of immanent critique but in the form of a dilemma that will only be resolved later.