historicism

How To Use historicism In A Sentence

• In most areas of social science there has been a persistent debate about the relative merits of ahistoricism and historicism.
• This is a persuasive argument, one in which DeLillo's novel does not itself ‘exhibit the ahistoricism and pastiched depthlessness often associated with postmodernism’.
• Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness. The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
• He explains Weber's transition from historicism to a historical social science.
• Their authors have moved beyond polemics as they have moved beyond historicism and formalism. The Times Literary Supplement
• 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. The State of Criticism
• Using the term historicism as a lens brings the shared cognitive assumptions that lay behind these formulations into sharper focus.
• He argued broadly as follows: Nineteenth-Century historicism had debased the currency of traditional architectural forms.
• Another influential summary statement of the common sense of old historicism is Tony Tanner’s essay, Notes for Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism
• This is especially true of the concepts of hegemony and historicism, on which Coxian forms of critical theory have largely focused.