TERM USED FOR DIFFERENT AND INDEED INCOMPATIBLE THEORIES.
It has two main senses. First, that historical events must be seen in their uniqueness and can only be understood against the background of their context. In this sense it is akin to the emphasis on Verstehen in Wilhelm Dilthey’s hermeneutics.
The second sense is that of Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) who uses ‘historism’ for the above sense. Historicism for Popper is the view that history is governed by inexorable laws, which the historian tries to predict, and is thus assimilated to science in a way quite incompatible with any appeal to Verstehen.
Popper’s historicism (which he was concerned vigorously to oppose) also gives corporate wholes a life of their own which cannot be explained in terms of the individuals composing them.
Also see: holism
Source:
K R Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (1957)
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
- 2.2 Practicing New Historicism
- 2.3 The German Historicist Tradition
- 2.4 Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology (Guides to Theological Inquiry)
- 2.5 Historicism Second Edition (The New Critical Idiom)
- 2.6 Historicism
- 2.7 New Historicism (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament Series)
- 2.8 Poverty of Historicism
- 2.9 The New Historicism
- 2.10 Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Book 1)
- propensity theory of probability
- falsificationism
- hypothetico-deductive method
- Karl Popper
- negative utilitarianism
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The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
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- Popper, Karl (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 03/29/2002 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Practicing New Historicism
- Gallagher, Catherine (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 260 Pages - 09/01/2001 (Publication Date) - University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
The German Historicist Tradition
- Beiser, Frederick C. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 612 Pages - 03/29/2015 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology (Guides to Theological Inquiry)
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- Davaney, Sheila Greeve (Author)
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- 208 Pages - 03/01/2006 (Publication Date) - Fortress Press (Publisher)
Historicism Second Edition (The New Critical Idiom)
- Hamilton, PaulM (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 05/22/2003 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
New Historicism (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament Series)
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- Hens-Piazza, Gina (Author)
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- 102 Pages - 04/01/2002 (Publication Date) - Fortress Press (Publisher)
Poverty of Historicism
- Hardcover Book
- Popper, K.R. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 184 Pages - 04/06/1960 (Publication Date) - Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC (Publisher)
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Book 1)
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- Bynum, Caroline Walker (Author)
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- 464 Pages - 01/07/1988 (Publication Date) - University of California Press (Publisher)
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