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historicism
[ hi-stawr-uh-siz-uhm, -stor- ]
noun
- a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that historians must study each period without imposing any personal or absolute value system.
- a profound or excessive respect for historical institutions, as laws or traditions.
- a search for laws of historical evolution that would explain and predict historical phenomena.
historicism
/ ³óɪˈ²õ³ÙÉ’°ùɪˌ²õɪ³úÉ™³¾ /
noun
- the belief that natural laws govern historical events which in turn determine social and cultural phenomena
- the doctrine that each period of history has its own beliefs and values inapplicable to any other, so that nothing can be understood independently of its historical context
- the conduct of any enquiry in accordance with these views
- excessive emphasis on history, historicism, past styles, etc
Derived Forms
- ³ó¾±²õˈ³Ù´Ç°ù¾±³¦¾±²õ³Ù, nounadjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó¾±²õ·³Ù´Ç°ùi·³¦¾±²õ³Ù noun adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of historicism1
Example Sentences
But he passes over Popper's deeper individualist epistemological mistake, embedded in his philosophy of science, which provided a foundation for his attack on historicism.
Such historicism is not an argument but a gambit to forestall argument.
It was edgier than his usual romantic historicism and more interesting for it.
Latour’s historicism misses a key point about science, which is that it is about matters which are the case whether we believe them to be so or not.
This one wasn’t about gender fluidity, but rather a sort of timeline porousness between day and night, home and event, historicism and modernity.
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