Historicist

Neither were the styles chosen evenly 'historicist' or archaeologic in their composition, often incorporating in their massing a hint of the skyscraper. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My comments about "historicist" arguments were in the context of responses on the forum on which I made them, and Don has misrepresented them as applicable generally. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Which reminds me that despite all the nonsense that is written all the time about Jesus from both the mythicist and theologically driven "historicist" camps you do find occasionally nuggets of gold. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

But even more importantly it taught me, long before I had heard the word "historicist," to think of the world around me as historically contingent, to view the found world not as eternal but as something that might be otherwise, and sooner or later would be. ❋ Flavia (2009)

Many people I talk to--even academics in other fields--profess great surprise at how "historicist" or "non-theoretical" the projects that I and most of my friends work on are. ❋ Flavia (2007)

The problem arises when these scholars, and their popularizers like Beck and Goldberg, treat all American liberalism and leftism from World War I until the 21st century as the continuation of early 20th century progressivism, the better to denounce today's liberalism as "historicist" and "relativist" and lump it with the Confederate and Nazi ideology. ❋ Michael Lind (2010)

"historicist" and "relativist" and lump it with the Confederate and Nazi ideology. ❋ Jonathan Chait (2010)

Such "historicist" interpretations of Victorian London have also appeared recently in the fascinating current exhibit at the Wellcome Collection, "Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life," and in Bill Bryson's new bestseller, At Home, which examines the social history surrounding a Victorian curate's manor. ❋ Naomi Wolf (2011)

Thus academic criticism of the historicist and cultural studies varieties may result in something that could be called knowledge (although not always), but it is not knowledge of literature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The developer, a partnership of the Durst Organization and Sidney Fetner Associates, opted against swinging too far in the historicist direction, preserving every remnant of what is a graceful, yet fairly unremarkable century-old building. ❋ Dana Rubinstein (2011)

He may well be sporting a sort of historicist moustache as well. ❋ Natalia Rachlin (2011)

For literary study in its historicist and cultural studies incarnations, literature gives us access to the historical/cultural forces that worked through the writer to author the work, the exposure of which forces is the most important work of academic criticism. ❋ Unknown (2010)