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单词 historicism
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Definition of historicism in English:

historicism

noun hɪˈstɒrɪsɪz(ə)mhɪˈstɔrəˌsɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1The theory that social and cultural phenomena are determined by history.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This, it seems to me, is the reason why theory is capable of replacing new historicism altogether.
    • He explains Weber's transition from historicism to a historical social science.
    • Thus the application of a concept of historicism remarkably similar to Lukács' led Teige to the absolutely opposite aesthetic conclusion.
    • Thus criticism of the Historical Critical Method as historicism is incorrect, even though the method has been misused in that way.
    • In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age.
    • This is especially true of the concepts of hegemony and historicism, on which Coxian forms of critical theory have largely focused.
    • Here is a writer who seems to have subscribed quite deeply to the sort of historicism that Chakrabarty describes.
    • In the 1920s this was the target of the idealistic historicism of Benedetto Croce.
    • Implicit in Godwin's privileging of romance over history is a kind of historicism that is directly opposed to Scott's.
    • This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate.
    • To explicate this paradigm, the study, in addition to the tenets of border theory, draws on the insights of historicism and postcolonial theory.
    • On the theoretical level, it shows the historicism of ‘culture’; the term, quite simply, means different things to different people at different times.
    • Using the term historicism as a lens brings the shared cognitive assumptions that lay behind these formulations into sharper focus.
    • The immediate genealogy of New Historicism was not German historicism but the Marxism of the mid-20th Century.
    • This is surely not quite the kind of historicism that cultural critics in general really know what to do with.
    • In most areas of social science there has been a persistent debate about the relative merits of ahistoricism and historicism.
    • Thus the problem is clearly of escaping relativism and historicism without denying the historical origin of our existence and thought (Hegel).
    • How new are cultural materialism and new historicism, for instance?
    • In the dimension of time it appears as historicism, each occasion encased in its own context.
    • The historicism and pseudo-objectivism of this approach leaves little room for theory of any kind.
    1. 1.1 The belief that historical events are governed by natural laws.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism.
      • In other words, the primary structures Lukacs identified when criticizing the historicism of the naturalist novel could exist in artworks that portrayed no historical content whatsoever.
      • I see a Wordsworthian version of Romantic historicism as self-reflexive, operating within the competing temporalities of modernity.
  • 2The tendency to regard historical development as the most basic aspect of human existence.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another dilemma for the human-rights project is the challenge of historicism and relativism.
  • 3(in artistic and architectural contexts) excessive regard for past styles.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He argued broadly as follows: Nineteenth-Century historicism had debased the currency of traditional architectural forms.
    • But Panofsky does not actually spell out what Raphael did to escape the logic of historicism.
    • This was furnished with a state bed, designed by Braund, an intriguing piece of historicism.
    • The late 1970s brought a revival of historicism, often resulting in a reaction against Modern Movement design principles and technology in design.
    • This is historicism, and sits comfortably in the old modernist ‘hegemony’ Jencks thinks this is beyond.
    • Like architect Charles Moore, Smyth embraced overt historicism as a response to such a setting.
    • Those favoured by the regime still tended towards the neo-Gothic in architecture and sculpture, and an academic historicism in painting.
    • Its link to Art Nouveau, with its total rejection of historicism, makes it the starting point for all studies of modernism.

Derivatives

  • historicist

  • noun
    • Both Irving and Lacunza were premillennial but historicists.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate.
      • Against the historicists, it is possible to find cases where elements of international society developed in areas not sharing a common culture.
      • But while Hobbes was a rationalist, Machiavelli was an historicist.
      • Like Lukács, too, he is a Hegelian historicist for whom the art that matters is one flushed with the dynamic forces of its age.

Origin

Late 19th century: from historic, translating German Historismus.

 
 

Definition of historicism in US English:

historicism

nounhiˈstôrəˌsizəmhɪˈstɔrəˌsɪzəm
  • 1The theory that social and cultural phenomena are determined by history.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On the theoretical level, it shows the historicism of ‘culture’; the term, quite simply, means different things to different people at different times.
    • This, it seems to me, is the reason why theory is capable of replacing new historicism altogether.
    • In most areas of social science there has been a persistent debate about the relative merits of ahistoricism and historicism.
    • He explains Weber's transition from historicism to a historical social science.
    • Implicit in Godwin's privileging of romance over history is a kind of historicism that is directly opposed to Scott's.
    • In the 1920s this was the target of the idealistic historicism of Benedetto Croce.
    • This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate.
    • The immediate genealogy of New Historicism was not German historicism but the Marxism of the mid-20th Century.
    • This is especially true of the concepts of hegemony and historicism, on which Coxian forms of critical theory have largely focused.
    • In his writings Karl Popper questioned the positivism and teleological historicism of the modern age.
    • How new are cultural materialism and new historicism, for instance?
    • Here is a writer who seems to have subscribed quite deeply to the sort of historicism that Chakrabarty describes.
    • Thus criticism of the Historical Critical Method as historicism is incorrect, even though the method has been misused in that way.
    • The historicism and pseudo-objectivism of this approach leaves little room for theory of any kind.
    • In the dimension of time it appears as historicism, each occasion encased in its own context.
    • Thus the problem is clearly of escaping relativism and historicism without denying the historical origin of our existence and thought (Hegel).
    • To explicate this paradigm, the study, in addition to the tenets of border theory, draws on the insights of historicism and postcolonial theory.
    • Using the term historicism as a lens brings the shared cognitive assumptions that lay behind these formulations into sharper focus.
    • This is surely not quite the kind of historicism that cultural critics in general really know what to do with.
    • Thus the application of a concept of historicism remarkably similar to Lukács' led Teige to the absolutely opposite aesthetic conclusion.
    1. 1.1 The belief that historical events are governed by laws.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism.
      • In other words, the primary structures Lukacs identified when criticizing the historicism of the naturalist novel could exist in artworks that portrayed no historical content whatsoever.
      • I see a Wordsworthian version of Romantic historicism as self-reflexive, operating within the competing temporalities of modernity.
  • 2The tendency to regard historical development as the most basic aspect of human existence.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another dilemma for the human-rights project is the challenge of historicism and relativism.
  • 3(in artistic and architectural contexts) excessive regard for past styles.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He argued broadly as follows: Nineteenth-Century historicism had debased the currency of traditional architectural forms.
    • Like architect Charles Moore, Smyth embraced overt historicism as a response to such a setting.
    • Its link to Art Nouveau, with its total rejection of historicism, makes it the starting point for all studies of modernism.
    • This is historicism, and sits comfortably in the old modernist ‘hegemony’ Jencks thinks this is beyond.
    • The late 1970s brought a revival of historicism, often resulting in a reaction against Modern Movement design principles and technology in design.
    • But Panofsky does not actually spell out what Raphael did to escape the logic of historicism.
    • This was furnished with a state bed, designed by Braund, an intriguing piece of historicism.
    • Those favoured by the regime still tended towards the neo-Gothic in architecture and sculpture, and an academic historicism in painting.

Origin

Late 19th century: from historic, translating German Historismus.

 
 
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