historicist
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- adjective
- /hɪˈstɔrɪsɪst/
- Formal
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historicista
- The historicist error, Popper says, lies in mistaking a historical interpretation for a theory or a law.
- historicist approach
- historicist position
- strong historicist
Examples
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In short, his historicist assumptions override the actual historical evidence.
Academic text (1993) -
Her book offers a historicist perspective on the development of modern democracy, considering the historical events that led to its evolution.
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But nevertheless, I think shows you something about the way new historicist thinking works.
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Yet I could not deny that from a historicist point of view, two rather different events had taken place.
Academic text (2007) -
In the new historicist version, authors are often seen as agents of a power system larger than they are.
Academic text (1998) -
Although historicist literary critics are free to disagree with the revisionists, it would be irresponsible to ignore them altogether.
Academic text (1999) -
Yet biography remains one of the scholarly genres with the greatest readership, and historicist criticism often draws on biographical information.
Blog text (16) -
Each of these postmodern theorists seeks to deploy components of Nietzsche's historicist understanding of society in the service of recognizably democratic aspirations.
Academic text (1995) -
As Joseph Litvak and Alan Liu have argued, New Historicist criticism often resembles the formalism it so energetically denounces.
Academic text (1999) -
The film provides a historicist analysis of how past events shape our current values and beliefs.
Synonyms
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The study of how people write about the past
About social life and history that shape people and places
About how people write and study the past
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word historicist comes from history ('study of the past') and -ist ('one who' or 'related to'). So a historicist approach means explaining ideas by their time and place, which is why historicist studies always focus on historical context.