单词 | metapolitical |
释义 | metapoliticaladj. 1. Lying outside or beyond the sphere of politics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > [adjective] > not > outside the sphere of metapolitical1647 super-political1667 1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. ii. x. 156 The limitation of the Kings power, in order to Evangelicall duties, which are extra-regalia, and Metapoliticall matters. 1937 J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism ii. 38 The deep-seated social urge towards life becomes necessarily anti-political in its manifestation. Perhaps meta-political would be a better word. It points and thrusts beyond politics. 1962 Ethics 72 240/2 Political freedom is a recognizable reality, but the will to this freedom is an existential act, for ‘existential’ freedom is prepolitical and metapolitical [corresponding to German überpolitisch]. 2. Of or relating to metapolitics; given to the study of metapolitics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [adjective] > political theory metapolitical1809 metapolitic1882 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 30 Nov. 225 The metaphysical (or as I have proposed to call them, metapolitical) reasonings hitherto discussed, belong to Government in the abstract. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 391 Fries, as Professor, taught a new political creed founded on the philosophy of Kant. Stein was assuredly not wrong in calling the new school metapolitical. 1889 W. J. H. Campion in Lux Mundi xi. 461 If man is ‘metaphysical nolens volens’, it is equally true that he is metapolitical, to use Martensen's happy word, nolens volens. 1964 P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 453 The technological shift in the modern world is a function of a meta-political model. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Oct. 40/4 He is on their side, intellectually, because he sees crime as a political, or meta-political act. 1995 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 89 951/1 To proceed from a metapolitical theory to political-theories-without-a-gaze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1647 |
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