This way of teaching may strike the resolute historical scholar as too "presentist," and the present-minded theorist as too "universalist.". From Wordnik.com. [The Decline and Fall of Literature] Reference
Employed as a term of opprobrium, "presentist" refers to criticism perceived as blithely and un-selfconsciously projecting a critic's own political or social concerns onto literature of another era. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Presentism] Reference
Defending this presentist practice, Jonathan Miller. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Presentism] Reference
The idea that the same rules of access exist all over the world is very presentist. From Wordnik.com. [Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing] Reference
The presentist can then treat ˜when™ as a primitive tense that holds between propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Descriptions] Reference
Interest is congealing around what academic historians would sniffily call “presentist” concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Before the Storm, Pt. 2] Reference
One that prevails at Zenith is that undergraduates are intrinsically presentist, and that this is a bad thing. From Wordnik.com. [Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Part 3 Of A Blogfest)] Reference
From a presentist point of view, I'm interested in the history of illness precisely because I'm a real person living in. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
By this he meant the presentist evaluation of writing as good or bad, enlightening or not, in the eyes of whoever is reading. From Wordnik.com. [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] 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
It is precisely this flexibility, howeverthis possibility for exploring new forms of subjectivitythat makes presentist work so compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
Insofar as pragamatic tendencies are sometims often? presentist, then it may become difficult for them to exert prophetic influence in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Philip Rieff on charisma, culture, and prophecy.] Reference
Which, I suppose, speaks to some buried human presentist belief that we awake in the morning once and for all, the dawn that gleams around us will never depart. From Wordnik.com. [etereturnum] Reference
In clarifying some of these some these basic beliefs, my aim is to articulate both the historical and the more personal or subjective value of presentist scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
The Legal Adviser might have stopped merely with armed conflict, taking a narrow and presentist view that all that matters is Al Qaeda today, and not presidents tomorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech] Reference
Though at times disturbingly presentist in orientation, Bradshaw has valuably emphasized the importance of personal values and biases for early modern Irish historiography. From Wordnik.com. [Catastrophic Dimensions:The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615] Reference
˜Aristotle™ refers (or an utterance of it must refer), then the presentist is in trouble, for ˜Aristotle™ clearly does not refer to an individual that presently exists. From Wordnik.com. [Descriptions] Reference
The title is unfortunate, since it implies that contemporary constitutional originalism had its roots in Athens and seems to portend a presentist approach to ancient history. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Morris, who had also rejected a similar question earlier in the show, bridled and told Schieffer the question was inappropriate: You keep asking these presentist questions Bob. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Morris Swears On 'Face The Nation' (VIDEO)] Reference
There were other factors, too; I didn't want the book to seem as though it was presentist — as though I was specifically looking for historical parallels to today's situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret History] Reference
There are probably any number of ways to honor presentist influences on literary criticism in general, and on literary history in particular, without necessarily contributing to an. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
The historicist (or presentist) considers the events of Revelation now in the process of fulfillment, while the futurist believes that the bulk of the book refers to events to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!] Reference
As it turns out, then, reading illness narratives from the nineteenth century has quite a lot to do with the politics of "compassionate conservatism," among other presentist concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
Historical investiga-tion of what slavery did to slaves is charged with presentist implications that shadow every fact found, and consciously or unconsciously shape every interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [The Big American Crime] Reference
Asking these questions of Simpson's critique leads me to the conclusion that his antiquarianism may not really be so different from the presentist-inspired historical projects he critiques. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
Despite its relentlessly presentist perspective, the book contains many deft observations about Puritanism that will doubtless make these remote people seem far less strange to modern readers. From Wordnik.com. [New World, New Ideas] Reference
Reading the present differently is, I confess, a reward I value highly in critical work, and I suspect that it is precisely this subjective, presentist relation to literary scholarship that has Simpson worried. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
He seems to be expressing his unhappiness not only with the monolithic and anti-historical nature of presentist reading practices, but with the equally objectionable worldviews of presentist readers themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession] Reference
To some extent, this entire history is “presentist” in nature — in that it does not take into account the broader scope of political movements, and their association with party identification and agendas. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Before the Storm, Pt. 2] Reference
To be fair, though, my definitions of "gift" here are not his, and I am imposing them for presentist purposes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Libertarian Labyrinth] Reference
Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I never thought I wanted to trace the origins of modernity, or write a history book with what might sound like a presentist agenda. From Wordnik.com. [History News Network] Reference
As an historian working at Georgetown University, he is aware of the historical constitution of the present, without being presentist. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
Nevertheless in these presentist texts there are brief, rather pointless attempts made by by Hawkes and Grady, a few others, to muddy this clear point. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
Critics lamented what they felt was a lowering of standards by the library-a trendy, presentist diversion from its national mission of saving historically valuable knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog] Reference
You keep asking these presentist questions Bob. From Wordnik.com. [WATCH: Famed Historian SWEARS On 'Face The Nation'] Reference
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