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单词 historicism
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historicismn.

Brit. /hɪˈstɒrᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /hɪˈstɔrəˌsɪzəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a German lexical item, and probably partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: historic adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < historic adj. + -ism suffix, partly after German Historismus (late 18th cent.; found in sense 2 and, especially, sense 3). In sense 1 probably after ancient Greek ἱστορία in the meanings ‘inquiry, knowledge obtained by inquiry’ (see history n.).
1. S. T. Coleridge's term for: empiricism. Obsolete. rare.
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1825 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (2002) IV. 5201 I transcribe the following..from the Epistola Responsoria..of..Sydenham..: it presenting a clear and faithful statement of the philosophic Code of enlightened Empiricism, for which term whenever it is used in a good sense it would be desirable to substitute Empīry..or perhaps still better, Historicism.
2. Belief in the importance or value of historicity or of the past; spec. (in art and architecture) regard for or preoccupation with the styles or values of the past; a style or movement characterized by this. Frequently used pejoratively.In quot. 1856 referring to the interpretation of prophecies in books of the Bible as describing events contemporary with the writer of those works.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of
grotesque1561
charging1569
gusto1662
grand manner1695
manner1706
flatnessa1719
style1801
low key1803
mannerism1803
daguerreotype1850
chic1851
conventionalization1880
Louis Philippe1908
stylization1908
convention1926
historicism1939
pop1958
1856 A. Saphir tr. C. A. Auberlen Prophecies Dan. & Rev. St. John iii. ii. 395 The present task of evangelical theology is to overcome the rationalistic, unhistorical historicism..by a right appreciation of sacred history.
1858 F. W. Newman in Westm. Rev. Jan. 153 Not dissimilar is the case with the accomplished Bunsen, who invests in gorgeous colours and vast pomp of intricate words a system of religious historicism, in which the common intellect can discover no solidity, no fixed shape, no firm and certain meaning.
1870 Nation (N.Y.) 20 Jan. 40/1 Their inactivity..may be accounted for by a certain historicism (if such a term may be used) of the Italian mind, which loves historic continuity and is loth to break with the past.
1887 A. Menzies tr. O. Pfleiderer Philos. Relig. II. iii. v. 74 One-sided idealistic liberalism and onesided realistic conservatism or historicism confront each other as hostile parties in state, society, church, and science.
1939 Archit. Rev. 86 55 If she has, in the New York Fair, done little more than to turn away from historicism to a new kind of pastiche, we can hope at least that with the new school of architects now springing up..the real reform will not be long delayed.
1942 Archit. Rev. 91 52 In between there came a wave of European historicism, all the varieties of Victorian period imitation.
1966 New Statesman 25 Feb. 260/2 His [sc. I. J. Tengbom's] Högalids Church of 1916–23 and Concert Hall of 1920–26, both in Stockholm, are among the key monuments in Europe of the transition from historicism.
1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–1945 i. 18 A museological interest in indigenous folk art is part of the wider historicism which marks the nineteenth century.
3.
a. Any of various beliefs that social and cultural phenomena cannot be considered independently of their historical context; the practice of studying something with reference to its historical context.See also new historicism n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of history > [noun] > historicism
historicism1895
historism1897
geneticism1904
1895 Ld. Acton Lect. Study Hist. 58 Science had its share in saturating the age with historic ways of thought, and subjecting all things to that influence for which the depressing names historicism and historical-mindedness have been devised.
1920 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 536 If we find in him..some acute historical observation, the merit must be attributed to the historicism of the century.
1938 Mind 47 114 Historicism..acknowledges truth only as valid in a special epoch.
1972 R. C. Solomon From Rationalism to Existentialism v. 150/1 Historicism is the application of this same thesis to history; because different cultures in different periods of history were psychologically and culturally different, their ‘truths’ are different.
2003 T. Hawkes in C. M. S. Alexander Cambr. Shakespeare Libr. II. 1/2 Traditionally, historicism tends to regard historical material as a background against which literary texts might profitably be placed.
b. The belief that historical processes are determined by natural laws rather than by human choice and agency, historical determinism; the practice of studying the social sciences from this viewpoint.Now chiefly associated with Karl Popper who attacked such a belief (see quots. 1940 and 1957).
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the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > doctrine of necessity > doctrine of historical necessity
historicism1916
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of history > [noun] > German historicism
historicism1939
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1916 J. Dewey in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 258/1 By historicism I mean the notion of an Ideal, a Mission, a Destiny which can be found continuously unfolding in the life of a people.., in whose light the events which happen are to be understood, and by faithfulness to which a people stands condemned or justified.
1939 I. Berlin Karl Marx iii. 49 Against the scientific empiricism of the French and English, the Germans put forward the metaphysical historicism of Herder and of Hegel.
1940 K. R. Popper in Mind 49 423 Marx's emphasis on historical method in sociology, a tendency which I may call ‘historicism’.
1957 K. R. Popper Poverty of Historicism 3 I mean by ‘historicism’ an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim, and..that this aim is attainable by discovering the ‘rhythms’..that underlie the evolution of history.
1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 89/1 I was surprised, however, to find an eminent scientist embracing historicism (the theory championed by Hegel and Marx holding that history is determined by immutable forces rather than by human agency) as an explanation for the evolution of science.
2004 D. Karlholm Art of Illusion i. 58 A search for the historical roots of fascism can easily go berserk and surrender to the same naïve evolutionism..of historicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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