Historicism

He criticized what he called historicism, the perspective that all standards are relative to or imposed by particular historical situations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wilson goes on to maintain that "the triumph of historicism is a pity, not least because the dominance of any orthodoxy tends to deaden the critical faculties," but she has clearly accepted the underlying demonization of formalism (it's "inhuman," to accept it "heresy") that has made the domination of historicism in academic criticism possible. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Paul Hamilton puts the problem this way: historicism is the name given to this apparent relativing of the past by getting to know the different interpretations to which it is open and deciding between them on grounds expressing our own contemporary preoccupations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2006)

First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Weber, Marx, and to a lesser extent Annales historians (Bloch, Febvre, Braudel) all had roots in German historicism and in basic ways they both preserved and modified historicist concerns. ❋ GEORG G. IGGERS (1968)

The practice of "historicism" - or, reading documents strictly within the context that they were written - has also encouraged scholars to look more closely at long-ignored biblical references in classic political texts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another influential summary statement of the common sense of old historicism is Tony Tanner’s essay, Notes for ❋ Unknown (2006)

Because another way of talking about the dark night of historicism is that what you’re seeing is a natural evolution of any kind of movement. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Yet the mythicists who visit here will at the same time appeal to the lack of agreement among historians about the details of Jesus' life as evidence that "historicism" has failed. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Mudge's analysis dramatizes, and is intended to dramatize, the usefulness of the kind of historicism that I have tried to defend, so it's not surprising that I like his essay. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Right now, I'm nearing the end of an account of "historicism," which as a mode of Biblical exegesis has nothing to do with anything an English professor would recognize as "historicism" or a historian, for that matter. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This won't advance the thread, but in what context did someone use "historicism" and ❋ Unknown (2010)

These intellectuals -- who became university professors and social critics -- were infatuated by late-19th-century German "historicism," which taught that there are "laws of society," as real and clear-cut as the laws of physics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Theses on the Philosophy of History-Benjamin presents a critique of what he calls "historicism," a notion of history that conceives of the past as a sequence of events that are fixed, and which give rise mechanically to the present and future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The critic Kobayashi Hideo and the physicist Kikuchi Seishi, meanwhile, from very different points of view, rejected outright the kind of historicism that underlay the very notion of modernity. ❋ Route66mn (2009)

In their view, often called "historicism," ideas can be traced to prior conditions that are not ideas, such as economic forces or, more particularly for them, political interests.

"historicism" to task for the naiveté and insidiousness of its "once upon a time" view of history. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Heuristicism is a morpheme of [the word] "historicism." ❋ Tomorrowtomorrow (2019)