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单词 organicism
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Definition of organicism in English:

organicism

noun ɔːˈɡanɪsɪz(ə)mɔrˈɡænəˌsɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1The doctrine that everything in nature has an organic basis or is part of an organic whole.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
    • Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond.
    • Others have felt compelled to attribute to Humboldt some form of holism, organicism, or even materialist determinism in order to give ideal unity to what they see as an otherwise hopelessly scattered empiricism.
    • Such organicism is certainly not unique to Winthrop but had filtered to the Puritans through ancient, medieval, and Elizabethan sources, many with Anglican and Papal roots.
    • Much of his work at Harvard focused on metaphysics, especially his emphasis on organicism and process.
  • 2The use or advocacy of literary or artistic forms in which the parts are connected or coordinated in the whole.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hesse's abstract organicism feels very present, especially in the many wall-mounted sculptures featuring the large pods that have become something of a hallmark for Neff.
    • Such theories were an important part of the Victorian intellectual world, and when Eliot probes the place of the individual in the social body, she is questioning an aspect of organicism that is potentially troubling.
    • One felt, in her marriage of geometry and chaos, something of the Post-Minimal organicism of Eva Hesse.
    • It tended to read as a superficial organicism applied over the work's underlying axiality.
    • Like Smithson, a knowledgeable early 20 th-century observer of Duchamp's readymades, such as his Bottle Rack of 1914, would have much more readily understood this joke at the expense of Bergsonian organicism.

Derivatives

  • organicist

  • adjective & noun ɔːˈɡanɪsɪst
    • But how many on the right, aside from Schmitt, explicitly rejected German Romanticism - the main current of German conservatism, with its organicist ideas of the volk - as intellectually and politically bankrupt?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's speaking the language of organicist conservatism - a credo of natural hierarchies and congenital cultural partitions.
      • An organicist focuses on the nature of integration, whereas the contextualist focuses on fusion-in either case, they are holistic’ .
      • Ostensibly an organicist term for civil society, which enjoyed much currency during the seventeenth century, it nevertheless has a long and interesting genesis.
      • A review of the Italian political thought of the 1920s also discloses deep associations between a rightist voluntarist model (such as Gentile's) and a leftist organicist ideology of the social (such as Gramsci's).
  • organicistic

  • adjective ɔːɡanɪˈsɪstɪkɔrˌɡænəˈsɪstɪk
    • About the historical origins of the organicistic viewpoint in biology a great deal could be said.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are two schools of thought about the nature of schizophrenia: the organicistic school and the psychodynamic school.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French organicisme.

 
 

Definition of organicism in US English:

organicism

nounɔrˈɡænəˌsɪzəmôrˈɡanəˌsizəm
  • 1The doctrine that everything in nature has an organic basis or is part of an organic whole.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Others have felt compelled to attribute to Humboldt some form of holism, organicism, or even materialist determinism in order to give ideal unity to what they see as an otherwise hopelessly scattered empiricism.
    • Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond.
    • Such organicism is certainly not unique to Winthrop but had filtered to the Puritans through ancient, medieval, and Elizabethan sources, many with Anglican and Papal roots.
    • Similarly, contextualism and organicism are world hypotheses that tend to see things in terms of wholes, even though they are preoccupied with different dimensions.
    • Much of his work at Harvard focused on metaphysics, especially his emphasis on organicism and process.
  • 2The use or advocacy of literary or artistic forms in which the parts are connected or coordinated in the whole.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hesse's abstract organicism feels very present, especially in the many wall-mounted sculptures featuring the large pods that have become something of a hallmark for Neff.
    • One felt, in her marriage of geometry and chaos, something of the Post-Minimal organicism of Eva Hesse.
    • Such theories were an important part of the Victorian intellectual world, and when Eliot probes the place of the individual in the social body, she is questioning an aspect of organicism that is potentially troubling.
    • It tended to read as a superficial organicism applied over the work's underlying axiality.
    • Like Smithson, a knowledgeable early 20 th-century observer of Duchamp's readymades, such as his Bottle Rack of 1914, would have much more readily understood this joke at the expense of Bergsonian organicism.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French organicisme.

 
 
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