historicism

He criticized what he called historicism, the perspective that all standards are relative to or imposed by particular historical situations.

University of Chicago Chronicle 2009

Wilson goes on to maintain that "the triumph of historicism is a pity, not least because the dominance of any orthodoxy tends to deaden the critical faculties," but she has clearly accepted the underlying demonization of formalism (it's "inhuman," to accept it "heresy") that has made the domination of historicism in academic criticism possible.

The State of Criticism 2008

Paul Hamilton puts the problem this way: historicism is the name given to this apparent relativing of the past by getting to know the different interpretations to which it is open and deciding between them on grounds expressing our own contemporary preoccupations.

Notes on 'The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality' 2006

Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness.

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography.

Presentism and the Archives 2002

Weber, Marx, and to a lesser extent Annales historians (Bloch, Febvre, Braudel) all had roots in German historicism and in basic ways they both preserved and modified historicist concerns.

HISTORICISM GEORG G. IGGERS 1968

The practice of "historicism" - or, reading documents strictly within the context that they were written - has also encouraged scholars to look more closely at long-ignored biblical references in classic political texts.

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

Another influential summary statement of the common sense of old historicism is Tony Tanner’s essay, Notes for

Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

Because another way of talking about the dark night of historicism is that what you’re seeing is a natural evolution of any kind of movement.

Site Two: Salisbury Plain, Sympathy, and Historicism. 2002

Yet the mythicists who visit here will at the same time appeal to the lack of agreement among historians about the details of Jesus' life as evidence that "historicism" has failed.

Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

Beginning in the eighteenth century, as the intellectual historian Dorothy Ross once pointed out, theories of history became secular; then they started something new—historicism, the idea “that all events in historical time can be explained by prior events in historical time.”

What the Gospel of Innovation Gets Wrong Condé Nast 2014