According to Sartre, when immanence is not immanent to something but itself, then it is only possible to speak of a plane of immanence. The plane then can perhaps be radical emparisism.therefore the plane presents events that are expressed in the form of words as concepts. ... "When immanence is no longer immanent to something other than itself it is possible to speak of a plane of immanence.Such a plane is, perhaps, a radical empiricism"pg 47 Radical empiricism would therefore be an operation which consists in liberating immanence, returning it to its own movement. ...

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David Robinson, for one, exploring Thoreau's "worldly transcendentalism," pursues a similar interest in the emergence of Thoreau's empiricism in the 1850s, but cautions against reading his ecological immersion in natural history after Walden as necessarily divorced from the poetics of "Emersonian idealism" evident in Thoreau's own earlier work: "Over the last decade of his life, Thoreau devised a set of interlinking projects in which empirical observation and metaphysical conceptualization played vital and complementary roles." (7) In this essay, I heed Robinson's caution, ...

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