KMT historicization has always been characterized by strongly centralized themes of essentialist, primordialist national cohesion. From Wordnik.com. [Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan] Reference
Heidegger provides a deflationary ontology, a historicization of the process of reification and forgetfullness of this fundamental ground of philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The historicization of myths, argues Bachofen, is a characteristic of Roman genius (ibid., pp. 236ff.) — an idea which was to be developed by Georges Dumézil in the 1940's. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I think the fact that it does not seem to have been lends credence to the view that the gospels were a later historicization of a person about whose life very little was actually known. From Wordnik.com. [Diglotting and Debunking Jesus Mythicism] Reference
Intellectually and philosophically, with or without moral impulse, there seems to be next to nothing that can be safely excluded in an a priori way from the historicization of a literary work. From Wordnik.com. [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] Reference
I thought that mythicists or at least some of them didn't like "Q" because it suggests an independent source for the gospels thereby undercutting the idea that they are nothing more than a midrashic historicization of Paul. From Wordnik.com. [Mythicist Quote of the Day (Neil Godfrey)] Reference
The National Studies school takes a further step towards historicization: Motoori Norinaga argues that the Confucian sages were indeed human, timebound and that their distance and historical contingency makes them poor models for Japanese to emulate. From Wordnik.com. [井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print] Reference
Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human's place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is Rudwick's herculean effort to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog: April 2006 Archives] Reference
Of all the nouveau technocratic disciplines — industrial sociology, organizational psychology — to be codified in the wake of World War II, only academic international relations, with its peculiarly intense penchant for self-historicization, developed a language that has colonized the general lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [Test-Driving the New Neoconservatism] Reference
Examination, dissection, analysis, and historicization of cultural movements is hard to do, as they are unfolding and moving from individual to collective manifestations. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Crimson | All Articles] Reference
This quick recourse to history should not give one the impression that the hegemony of legality is totally assured and univocal, or that historicization is a panacea against the metonymic abuses of modernity. From Wordnik.com. [TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Reference
And then there's that vexing question (that keeps popping up in my inbox) of what contemporary arts research really is … and what kind of a history of the field we are defining as our arguably premature historicization of it means its immediate institutionalization. From Wordnik.com. [Walker Blogs Combined Feed] Reference
The results generate an engaging visual-tactile friction and initiate an interrogation of the processes of intellectual historicization and physical entropy that poses some intriguing questions about the ways in which we communicate individual and cultural importance. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
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