1) Art movement
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[Christianity] Historicism is a method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which associates biblical prophecies with actual historical events and identify symbolic beings with historical persons or societies. The Historicist school of prophetic interpretation results in a progressive and continuous fulfillment of prophecy and contain...
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[art] Historicism or also Historism (Historismus) comprises artistic styles that draw their inspiration from recreating historic styles or artisans. This is especially prevalent in architecture, such as revival architecture. Through combination of different styles or implementation of new elements, historicism can create completely differen...
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belief that all phenomena are historically determined
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(from the article `musical performance`) One final development, the import of which would not be fully realized until the present century, was that of historicism: the active revival of old ... The historicist critique was initiated by the philosophers N.R. Hanson (1924–67), Stephen Toulmin, Paul Feyerabend (1924–94), and Thom...
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Term referring to two contrasting views on the nature of historical and social research. The first claims that historians must interpret each age in terms of its values, assumptions,...
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the theory that claims 1) that there is an organic succession of developments (also known as historism or the German historismus), and 2) that local conditions and peculiarities influence the results in a decisive way. It can be contrasted with reductionist theories which suppose that all developments can be explained by fundamental principles (suc...
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historicism 1. The belief that natural laws beyond human control determine historical events. 2. The theory that each period of history has its own unique beliefs and values and can only be understood in its historical context. 3. A theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by any human agency. 4. A theory that all cultural phen...
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The view that the history of anything is a sufficient explanation of it, that the values of anything can be accounted for through the discovery of its origins, that the nature of anything is entirely comprehended in its development, as for example, that the properties of the oak tree are entirely accounted for by an exhaustive description of its d....
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a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency. · a theory that all cultural phenomena are historically determined and that historians must study each period without imposing any personal or absolute value system. · a profound or excessive respect for historical institutions, as laws or traditions. ·...
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