| 释义 |
ˈtotalist, n. (and a.)
[f. total a. and n. + -ist.]
One who inclines to treat or regard things as a whole; one concerned with the whole social environment, esp. as a means of thought-control; one concerned with the whole person. Also attrib. or as adj.
1956J. S. Bruner et al. Study of Thinking v. 128 The totalists have wanted to stay as close as possible to the whole cortex as an explanation, and it is only with the greatest reluctance that they will subtract any of its attributes as irrelevant. 1961R. J. Lifton Thought Reform xxii. 420 Through this milieu control the totalist environment seeks to establish domain over not only the individual's communication with the outside.., but also..over what we may speak of as his communication with himself. Ibid. 422 Ideological totalists do not pursue this approach solely for maintaining a sense of power over others. 1964R. Wilkinson Gentlemanly Power xiii. 184 A ‘totalist ideology’..refers to any doctrine which attempts a complete, unified explanation of world and society. 1969Political Q. XL. 472 Only that which is known by the ‘whole being’ is sound and healthy... The origins of this totalist view of knowledge..are no doubt various.
So totaˈlistic a.
1932H. H. Price Perception vi. 151 The perceptual act still has this totalistic character. 1942Mind LI. 316 Some writers are frightened by the word intuition, and admittedly it has bad associations... Again, under, I believe, Croce's influence, it has come to mean the apprehension of a whole as a whole, a ‘totalistic’ apprehension. 1976Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XXVII. 88 A totalistic rejection of the contemporary order is not encountered. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Nov. 772/1 The idea of collage city was dualism itself, an incorporation of opposite qualities which Modern city planning in its utopian, or totalistic phase, had denied. |