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	Historicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elements of historicism appear in the writings of G.W.F. Hegel, an influential philosopher in 19th-century Europe, as well as in those of a philosopher he is said to have influenced heavily, Karl Marx.
		Hegelian historicism is related to his ideas on the means by which human societies progress, specifically the dialectic and his conception of logic as reflecting the inner essential nature of reality.
		The same label, new historicism is also employed for a school of literary scholarship which interprets a poem, drama, etc. as an expression of the power-structures of the surrounding society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historicism (1803 words)

	Historicism (Christian eschatology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historicism in Christian eschatology is an interpretation of the Book of Revelation that sees the book's prophecies finding literal earthly fulfillment through the history of the church age and especially in relation to the Protestant- Catholic conflicts of the Reformation.
		One famous proponent of historicism, for whom eschatology informed on politics, is Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland and Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.
		Paisley's party is the largest in the region, and many believe that his political philosophy based on his eschatological view was one of the major exacerbations of the political violence that prevailed for so long.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historicism_(Christian_eschatology) (156 words)

	HRC Conferences & Symposia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rorty's preference of Darwin to Descartes is suggestive of the historicism of his pragmatism, a historicism that is so absolutely crucial for a correct understanding of his thought that it would perhaps be better to characterize his position as a 'historicist pragmatism' rather than as 'pragmatism' sec.
		Thus he praises Heidegger for his historicism (whereas Derrida is not criticized for his anti-historicism - but Derrida is for Rorty much like the King in a constitutional monarchy: 'he can do no wrong') and he agrees with Heidegger's view that there exists no absolute and unchangeable 'structure of rationality'[29].
		Consequently, if one spills historicism on the wrong places in a philosophical argument the danger exists that essential parts of that argument will be corroded by historicism and thus lose their contours.
	cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/csc/conferences.cfm?doc_id=346 (5296 words)

	Theory and History; Chapter 10
		Historicism is first of all an epistemological doctrine and must be viewed as such.
		Some schools of historicism have declared that history is the only way to deal with human action and have denied the adequacy, possibility, and meaningfulness of a general theoretical science of human action.
		Historicism, on account of its rejection of praxeology, was from the outset prevented from embarking upon such a study.
	www.mises.org /th/chapter10.asp (9648 words)

	Hamlet Haven: New Historicism
		This article begins by exploring the observation that “most of the significant and sustained thinking in the early modern period about the nature of linguistic signs centered on or was deeply influenced by Eucharistic controversies” (8), such as theatricality, idolatry, and vulnerability of matter.
		After exploring the representations of Annunciation in art and religion, this essay argues “that Hamlet’s parodies and distortions of a rich array of traditional Annunciation motifs are set ironically but not didactically against his tendency to trust his own reason and to assert his own will against the inscrutable will of God” (58).
		Hoping to illuminate “aspects of the early modern period” (299), this essay traces “uses of the spatial metaphor of inner and outer and some of the ways in which it has profound ties to questions of faith and doubt” (300).
	www.hamlethaven.com /newhistoricism.html (12786 words)

	New Historicism
		Specifically, leaders of the movement describe themselves as unhappy with the exclusion of social and political circumstances (commonly known as the "context") from the interpretation of literary works; they are impatient with the settled view that a poem is a self-contained object, a verbal icon, a logical core surrounded by a texture of irrelevance.
		If its attempts to "historicize" literary study were merely an inducement to look into new kinds of documents, to ask about the relation of literature to social history in a new way, the movement would perform a service for scholarship.
		The New Historicism cannot be considered a new subspecialty within the discipline of English in the same sense as the older subspecialties of textual criticism or Renaissance studies.
	www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/historicism.html (4295 words)

	Defining Historicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burke was not sufficiently a philosopher in the technical and systematic sense to make this conception of universality explicit, but it lay implicit in the intimate connection that he saw between the historically evolved best insights and achievements of humanity—"the general bank and capital of nations and of ages"—and what orders human existence to good.
		Neither is historicism necessarily a claim to have discovered the ultimate meaning of history or to have found the one right method for studying it, or a desire to understand the past just as it understood itself, or a belief that all points of view are historically conditioned and therefore merely transitory.
		Croce’s historicism may be in one sense "unrelenting" (310), which is what Roberts wants it to be, but this does not mean that for Croce history is ultimately reducible to mere contingency and finitude.
	www.nhinet.org /ryn-rob.htm (5955 words)

	Welcome to the Web Site of the Historicism Research Foundation.
		Historicism is unlike Preterism, which teaches that most of prophecy has been fulfilled in the past.
		In brief, Historicism teaches that biblical predictions are being fulfilled throughout history and continue to be fulfilled today.
		The Book of Revelation is a pre-written history of the Church from the time of its writing to the future Second Advent of Christ, which shall usher in the new heaven and new earth.
	www.historicism.net (402 words)

	The Moral Attractions of Relativism
		Historicism holds that moral reasoning consists in the interpretation and elaboration of the moral beliefs by which a group of people live.
		Historicism and relativism are attractive because they provide support for moral beliefs we hold dear.
		Historicism and relativism are contested terms which are used in a variety of ways.
	www.stier.net /writing/rel/REL.HTM (10807 words)

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		Eventually I would like to include all of the papers that appeared in Historicism, the print publication, between 1985 and 1991.
		Historicism was a journal published from 1985 to 1991.
		During the seven years it was published Historicism carried 98 papers and six supplements, with special emphasis on Dan 11.
	www.historicism.org (232 words)

	Telman on Ankersmit and Iggers, "Forum: The Meaning of Historicism and Its Relevance for Contemporary Theory"
		Ankersmit had earlier praised the revolutionary component in Historicism, but he now decries the reactionary tendency of Historicists to believe that the stories they tell themselves about the past reflect a coherence to be found in the past.
		Historicism is revolutionary in replacing the Enlightenment's ontology of the statement with the concept of the dynamic "historical idea," but Historicism is reactionary in reifying that historical idea as a kind of Aristotelian entelechy inhering in nations or peoples.
		Historicism nonetheless makes possible real advances in historical knowledge by replacing the merely "probable" knowledge (in the Aristotelian sense) that Enlightenment notions of causality can produce with "certain" knowledge, which is presented without rhetorical manipulation and based on archival research into the progress of the historical idea.
	www.h-net.org /~german/articles/telman1.html (1386 words)

	Epistemological Problems, Standpoint of Historicism
		In the view of historicism the field of the science of human action is constituted only by history and the historical method.
		Historicism maintains that it is a waste of effort to search after universally valid regularities that would be independent of time, place, race, nationality, and culture.
		Historicism by its very nature is not a system, but the rejection and denial in principle of the possibility of constructing a system.
	www.mises.org /epofe/c1p1sec4.asp (645 words)

	Generous Orthodoxy ThinkTank: On historicism
		The primary concern about historicism seems to be this: An affirmation that any given intellectual's thought is entirely conditioned by the historical context in which he/she worked is incompatible with an affirmation that the intellectual's thought has relevance to other historical contexts.
		Historicism begins and ends with Option A. This approach to philosophy and theology began with 19th cen German thought, and became the de facto approach upon Heidegger's radical historicization of Aristotle and most other philosophers and theologicians in the Western tradition.
		Historicism suffers from the fatal internal flaw in that positing all thought to be historical, hence relative and not timeless, it must also admit that it too is historical, hence relative and not timeless.
	www.generousorthodoxy.net /thinktank/2005/12/on_historicism.html (8416 words)

	In Defence Of Historicism - Bible Truth Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Historicism: A theory that stresses the significant influence of history as a criterion of value and that events are determined or influenced by conditions and inherent processes beyond the control of humans.
		Another feature of historicism is seen in their effort to correlate events of Revelation with events occurring in the present church age.
		Historicism rests fimly on the typological principles of Divine revelation which are found from Genesis to Revelation, and which - when applied consistently throughout Scripture to the key prophetic passages - result in the Historicist understanding of eschatology.
	www.thechristadelphians.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=2392 (5622 words)

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		Part of the attraction of the New Historicism was the double promise which it contained for practitioners of theory who wanted to move on instead of returning to the practical--i.e.
		To these critics, the New Historicism seemed to have it all: not only was it based upon the best of post-structuralist thought (Foucault, Derrida, de Certeau, Barthes and so on), it also applied that thought to the broad investigative field for which it was initially devised--not just to the self-deconstructive rhetorics of canonical literary texts.
		In contrast to the American New Historicism, British Cultural Materialism was largely influenced by a tradition of (neo)Marxist historicist critics, the most important of whom, Raymond Williams, coined the term in his Marxism and Literature.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2.r_pieters.txt (2048 words)

	Historicism and The Oedipus Effect
		His use of the term 'historicism' shows that his legacy is a hybrid of the human and social sciences, and that his eccentric definition of the term echoes the classic critique of scientism that we have indicated already.
		The history of the term 'historicism' is complex indeed, but it is useful to consider Popper's definition, which resembles the issues raised by Isaiah Berlin on 'historical inevitability'.
		I mean by ‘historicism’ an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the ‘rhythms’ or the ‘patterns’, the ‘laws’ or the ‘trends’ that underlie the evolution of history.
	www.history-and-evolution.com /evodocs/theories.htm (1787 words)

	historicism and hegel and marx and oxford english dictionary
		Then, as I was reading White's charming biography of OW Holmes, he also used the word in his fuzzy first chapter in a way that made me want to see if I could isolate a determinate meaning for it.
		This view, called historicism, was elaborated consistently in Germany during the nineteenth century." Of course, you can endlessly debate to what extent it is possible to enter into another period at all; the viscous present seems to stick to us and with us as we try to lose ourselves in the past.
		Perhaps derived from 1 is the sense that historicism is to be equated with historical relativism.
	www.drbilllong.com /CurrentEventsV/Historicism.html (726 words)

	Myers, D.N.: Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought.
		At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins.
		By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills.
		For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7639.html (682 words)

	Extracts from "The Poverty of Historicism" by Karl Raimund Popper" by Karl Raimund Popper (Originally published in book ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although it teaches neither inactivity nor real fatalism, historicism teaches the futility of any attempt to alter impending changes; a peculiar variety of fatalism, a fatalism in regard to the trends of history, as it were.
		Tolstoy's historicism is a reaction against a method of writing history which implicitly accepts the truth of the principle of leadership; a method which attributes much - too much, if Tolstoy is right, as he undboubtedly is - to the great man, the leader.
		In his version of historicism, he combines both methodological individualism and collectivism; that is to say, he represents a high typical combination - typical of his time, and, I am afraid, of our own - of democratic-individualist and collectivist-nationalistic elements.
	lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /books/popper_poverty_of_historicism.html (5250 words)

	General Introduction to New Historicism
		However, New Historicists take this position further by then claiming that all cultural activities may be considered as equally important texts for historical analysis: contemporary trials of hermaphrodites or the intricacies of map-making may inform a Shakespeare play as much as, say, Shakespeare's literary precursors.
		New Historicism is also more specifically concerned with questions of power and culture (especially the messy commingling of the social and the cultural or of the supposedly autonomous self and the cultural/ political institutions that in fact produce that self).
		Indeed, his influence meant that New Historicism first gained popularity among Renaissance scholars, many of whom were directly inspired by Greenblatt's ideas and anecdotal approach.
	www.cla.purdue.edu /academic/engl/theory/newhistoricism/modules/intromainframe.html (578 words)

	Historicism Research Foundation
		We believe there are many reasons to believe that the book of Revelation, along with other prophetic portions of scripture, outline the entire history of Christ’s Church between His First and Second Advents, and do not merely focus on the beginning or ending of that time period.
		That is analogous to asking, ‘if Christianity is true, why are there so many Christian denominations?’ The answer, in brief, to that question is that people who are agreed that Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God may have different interpretations of various and sundry other issues raised in the Bible.
		And the answer regarding historicism is, in brief, that people who are agreed that the book of Revelation, along with other prophetic portions of scripture, outline the entire history of Christ’s Church between His First and Second Advents, may yet having different interpretations of various and sundry other issues raised in the prophecies.
	www.historicism.net /questionsandanswers.htm (1771 words)

	Historicism
		This is not to resurrect ‘historicism’, but to consider that the real criticism of historicism is man’s inability to properly assess the dynamical forces of anything so complex as world historical development, this quite apart from the lack of data to do so.
		One definition of historicism equates it with the dramatic view of history, denouncing somewhat egregiously the idea that historical chronicle could have the structure of a plot.
		Historicism preserves a challenge to any notion of the historical system that attempts to render over to numerical unity the expressive interiority of the ‘actual historical creature’ called Man, a thoroughly stubborn carnivorous pirate shambling out of the Paleolithic.
	eonix.8m.com /historicism.htm (4383 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War.
		Historicism is the belief that society is governed by fixed social laws, a view that Popper strongly opposed all of his life, especially in its Marxist or Darwinistic form ("Social Darwinism").
		The Poverty of Historicism argues against historicism - the idea that it is possible to predict human history, that is commonly held by theories such as Marxism, Nazism and Plato's political philosophy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415278465 (838 words)

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