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330 - 400 -- You are a Jerry Falwell Christian a.k.a "Historicist"
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Caldwell 2007
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According to such a Historicist diagnosis of modernity that culminates in the “death of God,” the alternative seems to be either a radical self-assertion and self-creation that runs the risk of being arbitrary (as in Nietzsche) or a complete desertion of the modern ideal of self-autonomous freedom
Asthmatic 2009
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I did not intend to draw this discussion into a Mythicist/ Historicist debate.
Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009
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These beliefs lead to what Popper calls ˜The Historicist Doctrine of the Social Sciences™, the views (a) that the principal task of the social sciences is to make predictions about the social and political development of man, and (b) that the task of politics, once the key predictions have been made, is, in Marx's words, to lessen the ˜birth pangs™ of future social and political developments.
Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009
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The pattern of debate between a mythicist (M) and a Historicist (H) seems to run like this.
Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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Historicist criticism, which is at bottom a thoroughgoing aestheticism, transforms the aesthetic into that-which-cannot-come-to-representation, thereby securing the political by way of an uncriticizable law.
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Greenblatt's life of Shakespeare represents the best of the New Historicist movement.
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Greenblatt, after all, is not just any Shakespeare scholar: he is the founder and leader of the academic New Historicist movement, probably the most influential school of literary criticism in America today.
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Greenblatt's life of Shakespeare represents the best of the New Historicist movement.
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Greenblatt, after all, is not just any Shakespeare scholar: he is the founder and leader of the academic New Historicist movement, probably the most influential school of literary criticism in America today.
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