Because many human rights deal with contemporary problems and institutions they are not transhistorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Rights] Reference

Both assume that the word will remain a pejorative and that the category it names is transhistorical in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision] Reference

Imagine a time whether prehistorical or transhistorical when human beings lived moment-to-moment in the presence of the sacred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

I took Bennett's use of "lesbian-like" as a strategy for ditching the transhistorical assumptions we make about heteronormativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest)] Reference

Nevertheless, I can't go as far as Stuart or Larry and say that there are no transhistorical notions of conservatism in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Rome among his examples of this transhistorical tendency in feminist criticism: for a critique of that collection along precisely these lines, see the review by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'] Reference

Literature, as we all know, is the human pageant distilled; but it's equally the transhistorical record of a sad and furious primate, a mirror held up to our species 'ugliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Criticism] Reference

I do not know that my blog has anything to suggest, except that I would love to read a great book of transhistorical comparative scholarship that tackled this business of smell head on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Fry: The Great Stink of 2005] Reference

In their introduction to The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Ray Browne and Lawrence Kaiser argue that the crimes in mystery novels are, in effect, transhistorical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical mysteries] Reference

As pointed out, Rickert in the end had to rely on a certain transhistorical, transcultural criterion in order to account for the purpose of an action, an assumption that cannot be warranted in Weber's view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asthmatic] Reference

But he is stuck with a conception of literature that equates it with "content," that reduces it to its role in facilitating our understanding of "what sort of creatures we are," its status as "transhistorical record.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Criticism] Reference

It is principally in their more detailed descriptions of pottery production methods and vessel types that Junod and Earthy indicate the kinds of supraethnic, transhistorical, and transspatial continuities suggested by archaeological accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

It is sometimes assumed that one of the basic philosophical issues of our time is the contrast between a relativistic historicism and the view that there are transhistorical, i.e., permanent ethically relevant ontological structures, and the anti - relativistic and anti-historistic view is sometimes iden - tified with Platonism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Indeed, "patriarchy" and "feminism," concepts hardly unrelated to one another, may be the two terms most vexing the study of Austen today, since their very inevitability now in discussions of her work presents a constant temptation to dehistoricize, given the nearly transhistorical force these terms have assumed in our own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying What One Thinks: Emma--_Emma_--at Box Hill] Reference

That is, women's and family historians have made all kinds of blanket transhistorical assumptions about the experience of heterosexual relations, childbirth, and child care especially with reference to women's experiences of them, but people want to get very careful and historically specific when we talk about lesbian-like history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest)] Reference

Iran's culture is nearly transhistorical, reaching back some 2,500 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Catholic Reporter] Reference

This dialectical anthropological assumption is a transhistorical assumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indymedia Ireland] Reference

One of the things behind this idea of "Contraband" is a transhistorical idea of what has been "radical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide] Reference

Institutionalized racism is not a transhistorical phenomenon merrily marching through history with a "life of its own.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CPUSA Front Page] Reference

The corridor from Silicon Alley to Valley seems to crackle, and a new in-crowd emerges: the one that loves Linux, organic produce, behavioral economics, transhistorical theories and "An Inconvenient Truth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moderate Voice] Reference

As far as I understand, Moishe Postone has been at least one of the theoreticians most explicit in interpreting Marx in such a way that labor is understood not as a transhistorical, ontological principle, but as a historically specific, capitalist institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [a General Theory of Rubbish] Reference

Erma Bombeck: a transhistorical reimagining for the progressive era Erma Bombeck: a transhistorical reimagining for the progressive era Erma Bombeck: a transhistorical reimagining for the progressive era Erma Bombeck: a transhistorical reimagining for the progressive era.    From Wordnik.com.  [protein wisdom] Reference

The heterogeneity of time helps us to see that, in Allen's words, time is not "a transhistorical phenomenon, an aspect of nature or product of technology existing outside of human society," but is "an historical artifact produced by human beings acting within specific historical circumstances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal History Blog] Reference

I have never read Shimizu so I don’t know what to make of this passage, but I’m not 100% convinced of the argument that presentist thought is more likely to lead to an essentialist and transhistorical position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Anpo Apostasy] Reference

Those who believe that art is ’special,’ that there is some kind of ‘transhistorical essence in art, everywhere and always the same;’ and that the correct meaning of a work of art is the one the artist intends, are, according to our man, simply mistaken.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January 18 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

The myths that the theatre presents, therefore, have two temporal dimensions: 1) Because they are about distinguishing features of human ˜being,™ they have, like Greek and Corneillian tragedy, a transhistorical appeal; they are plays about human freedom in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existentialist Aesthetics] Reference

The heterogeneity of time helps us to see that, in Allen’s words, time is not "a transhistorical phenomenon, an aspect of nature or product of technology existing outside of human society," but is "an historical artifact produced by human beings acting within specific historical circumstances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [War, Time, and Law] Reference

Del Toro is not so much a creator of myths as a collector of them, a transhistorical myth nerd whose pantheon of influences ranges from steam punk and Catholic iconography).    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference