"What is Immanence?"

This essay by FT traces the history of "immanence," a metaphysical principle central to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza. Starting with the pre-Socratic philosophers, the text explores "immanence" as a set of arguments about , and contrasts it with other theories of  like creationism, emanationism, analogism, and idealism. The essay is intended for a reader with no prior knowledge of philosophy.