Before moving on with the argument, it is worth briefly taking stock of what has been done so far and picking up the thread. In an attempt to dance where the rose is and to approach a problem by way of a critique of its current representative elaboration, a set of contemporary theories of critique formulated within the collaborative context of the Institute for Social Research, in the years surrounding the composition of Honneth’s mature work, then under his directorship, provided the occasion for entering the problem of immanent critique.