He criticized what he called historicism, the perspective that all standards are relative to or imposed by particular historical situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [University of Chicago Chronicle] Reference

First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presentism and the Archives] Reference

Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality] Reference

Another influential summary statement of the common sense of old historicism is Tony Tanner’s essay, Notes for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Site Two: Salisbury Plain, Sympathy, and Historicism.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  ['That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'] Reference

This won't advance the thread, but in what context did someone use "historicism" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Campus] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"historicism" to task for the naiveté and insidiousness of its "once upon a time" view of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin] Reference

He later identified historicism (istorismo) with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Some will scoff at the building's bland faux-historicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgetown Apple store finally ready to open] Reference

LAMB: What is, and I take this from your book, ` historicism '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America] Reference

Half-baked historicism like that was persuasive stuff in those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Frank: Bring Back Glass-Steagall] Reference

(Garden City, N.Y., 1959); on historicism, see particularly pp. 9-18.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

A “perspectivism” mediating between historicism and absolutism is thus envisaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference

Neither is it possible here to argue the case of Pla - tonism as against historicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

historicism (i) seems unmotivated, while historicism (ii) might descend into triviality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historicist Theories of Rationality] Reference

The creed of most German scholars was relativism and historicism: it is formulated by Erich.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference

While not in itself a political ideology, historicism from the beginning had implications for politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

By the middle of the nineteenth century, historicism is identified with the methodological approach of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

She never said anything, as I recall, about anything about the history of -- the historicism of this moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2008] Reference

Nevertheless, for Troeltsch, historicism con - stituted a tremendous advance in man's understanding of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

He saw the core of historicism in the replacement of a “generalizing” by an “individualizing” approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Germany as an expression of the “crisis of historicism” and disillusionment with German historical traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Prof. WEST: His -- that's -- historicism is a common -- a commonly-held view in our time among most leading academics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America] Reference

Kierkegaard, whose whole philosophy was a protest against Hegel, the ancestor of historicism and Geistes - geschichte.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALISM IN LITERATURE] Reference

Friedrich Schlegel in 1797 speaks of historicism as a “kind of philosophy” which places the main stress on history.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Popper sharply distinguished historicism from Historismus, which as was usual when he wrote, he called “historism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [DETERMINISM IN HISTORY] Reference

The historicism of this conception seems (as in Herder) to lead to universal tolerance and hence to complete relativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference

They re - jected historicism and, in Wilfrid Ward's phrase, they called for “not less, but more, and better, theology.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For historicism despite its explicit rejection of the idea of progress had been deeply optimistic about the course of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Classical historicism had, however, assumed the soundness of the social, eco - nomic, and political order of pre-1914 Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Benedetto Croce's “absolute historicism” repre - sented a third attempt to overcome historical relativity through history.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Page 496, Volume 2 mental issues affecting the emergence of “historicism” had been raised by the writings of Friedrich Karl von.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference

From the point of view of literary historicism, enthusiasm for Whitman and Wilde studies has been generated for a number of reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Whitman to Wilde: A Cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin de Si�cle] Reference

The impact of historicism on contemporary thought was lessened considerably in recent decades, particularly since the end of World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference

Thereafter, the two fundamental concepts of mature historicism, evolution and historical individ - uality, had a bearing on periodization.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERIODIZATION IN HISTORY] Reference

The worst excesses of our security policies, in other words, are now being used to justify revanchist historicism and present day malfeasance alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Meserole: From Guantanamo, With Love] Reference

There's an essential, unfortuate Canadianness to Canadian TV, exemplified by the two approaches taken to the product: cloying historicism or bland characterlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference