NOUN
- theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes
How To Use organicism In A Sentence
- Like Smithson, a knowledgeable early 20 th-century observer of Duchamp's readymades, such as his Bottle Rack of 1914, would have much more readily understood this joke at the expense of Bergsonian organicism.
- Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond.
- Such organicism is certainly not unique to Winthrop but had filtered to the Puritans through ancient, medieval, and Elizabethan sources, many with Anglican and Papal roots.
- Others have felt compelled to attribute to Humboldt some form of holism, organicism, or even materialist determinism in order to give ideal unity to what they see as an otherwise hopelessly scattered empiricism.
- It tended to read as a superficial organicism applied over the work's underlying axiality.
- Maybe the International style was less about not emulating biological organicism and more about giving geology a little respect. Archive 2007-02-01
- Book Made of Forest is exactly that; its poems exhibit a sort of humble, subtle, contemplative organicism that cannot be taught, and that connotes an earnest and unaffected attachment to the natural both literally and aesthetically. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- Hesse's abstract organicism feels very present, especially in the many wall-mounted sculptures featuring the large pods that have become something of a hallmark for Neff.
- All this is familiar, of course, as is the political organicism which is its corollary. Complexity and Order.
- However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. THE DISPOSSESSED
