Hegel's denial of immediacy

Historical and cultural mediation of seemingly freestanding totalities

Another is Hegel's claim that any immediate appearance is in fact mediated, both in the sense that there are various processes that have brought it about, and in the sense that it only appears as such when it has already been brought under varying types and levels of conceptual and social unities.

I rely on this for results similar to the Kantian and phenomenological points.

But in addition I rely on this to argue

• that there are processes by which those unities and worlds come to be, both processes within the dynamics of social content and meaning, and more familiar social and economic processes.
• that no grammars or rules or expectations, or places, are immediately given. They are the result of mediations by the processes that create concepts and rules, and by the process of historical production, economic, biological, social, cultural; these come together in the hermeneutic process that reproduces and reinterprets grammars and concepts.

• [Nearby: Background philosophical influences -- Kant's doctrine of reflective judgment -- Tensions among these approaches ]