historicism
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- noun
- /hɪsˈtɔːrɪsɪzəm/
- Formal
:
historicismo
- Not surprisingly, the New Historicism proves to be as theoretically unsound as deconstruction and feminism.
- New Historicism
- Nietzschean historicism
- Marxist historicism
And what Cole liked was this mix again, of the science and the art, the industry and education, the modernism and the historicism.
- And what Cole liked was this mix again, of the science and the art, the industry and education, the modernism and the historicism.
Examples
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Historians believe that many social changes can be explained by the theory of historicism.
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In short, Warren abandons Nietzschean historicism in order to secure universal equality.
Academic text (1995) -
The new historicism showed that language was designed to support the interests of the powerful.
Fiction book (1996) -
What then is so new about the New Historicism?
Academic text (1993) -
One academic result has been the emergence of an academic practice called New Historicism.
Academic text (1992) -
As a form of cultural history, the New Historicism is always countercultural.
Academic text (1993) -
Popper's alternative to historicism is the piecemeal approach or gradual reform of society.
Academic text (1991) -
His hovering between weak and strong historicist positions reveals the magic trick of all historicism.
Academic text (1993) -
In developing this aspect of historicism with a new intensity, the New Historicists are the heirs of Michel Foucault.
Academic text (1993) -
As Karl Popper suggests, historicism depends for its plausibility on creating a confusion between a difficulty and an impossibility.
Academic text (1993)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Historicism comes from history ('a story of the past') and the ending -ism ('a belief or system'). So, historicism is the idea that people, cultures, and events are shaped by their history.