单词 | historicism |
释义 | historicism —historicist, n. , adj. /hi stawr"euh siz'euhm, -stor"-/, n. 1. a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency. 2. a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that historians must study each period without imposing any personal or absolute value system. 3. a profound or excessive respect for historical institutions, as laws or traditions. 4. a search for laws of historical evolution that would explain and predict historical phenomena. [1890-95; HISTORIC + -ISM; cf. G Historismus] |
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