New Realism
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- noun
- /nuː ˈrɪəlɪzəm/
- Formal
- Philosophers associated with the New Realism argue that we can understand the world through direct observation.
- the age of New Realism
Examples
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"Nor did the latest new realism look realistic on election day.
Academic text (1997) -
Age of New Realism.
Academic text (2013) -
The age of new realism revolutionized children's books in the 1960s.
Academic text (2013) -
Accepting the nomination, Mondale endorsed a "new realism" that encompassed a "sober view" of the Soviets, a "growing private economy," and a government "as well-managed as it is well-meaning."
Academic text (1997) -
Not surprisingly, he saw himself as the apostle of the movement for abstraction; it perhaps tells us something about Kandinsky's notion of realism, however, that he saw Henri Rousseau as the great champion of the movement to establish a new realism.
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The New Realism is a philosophical movement that emphasizes the direct knowledge of the external world.
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In contrast to idealism, the New Realism asserts that reality exists independently of our perceptions.
Synonyms
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Belief that physical things exist even when no one sees them
Surface Forms
Morphology
The label 'New Realism' is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'new' (recent) and 'realism' (a philosophical view about the external world) can infer it designates a recent form or movement of realism. Although detailed philosophical claims require specialized knowledge, the basic sense 'a new variant of realism' is directly derivable from the constituents and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
New Realism comes from early 20th-century philosophers who wanted a fresh, 'new' way to express realism, the simple idea that the outside world really exists and can be known directly. So the name joins new and realism to show the movement's meaning: a modern view that things exist independently of our minds.