Sentences with word «historicist»

Now of course, thanks to the liberating demise of historicist ways of thinking about the history of modernism, we are ready to appreciate the marvelously inventive way that he uses intense pure color to achieve decorative effects.

He also designed in historicist motifs and revivalism styles, such as the Adamson House in the Spanish Colonial Revival and Moorish Revival styles.

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.

Historicist approaches interpret discrete streams of normative tradition, while foundationalist approaches strive to ground theological claims in tradition - transcendent appeals to reason and experience.

These two sides of our heritage have become split into opposing schools in much of contemporary thought — with one side protesting constrictive rationalisms of all sorts in the name of freedom, and the other resisting all plunges into historicist relativism.

Against a backdrop of traditional historicist styles, a new language of design emerged to define an era of innovation and modernity — the Jazz Age — capturing the pulse and rhythm of the American spirit.

Many of his firm's corporate projects lean toward eclectic, even historicist designs (Opus One, for instance), and so it is surprising to learn that his own taste leans towards Modernism.

In my judgment, in this volume it becomes fully clear that Pannenberg's systematic theology belongs in the great line of modern historicist - idealist systems.

Is even the Machiavellian project proto - historicist insofar as it's all about creating a world governed by human control — or not chance and necessity?

Being mechanistic, modern science is also historicist: It argues that a complete description of the efficient and material causal history of an entity is a complete explanation of the entity itself» in other words, that an understanding of how something came to be is the same as understanding what it is.

He resisted historicist reductionism on the one hand and confessional imperialism on the other.

This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate.

Indeed, a consistent historicist can do only this, and so Rorty and Vattimo intervene in philosophy by refusing its vocabulary and telling a story about why that vocabulary was once usable and now isn't.

Muller is right to emphasize the conservative critique of rationalism and the strongly historicist or anti-universalist character of many conservative thinkers.

But that objection to historicist conservatism was raised, as Muller notes, by Leo Strauss, certainly a conservative thinker, at least in the sense that classical political philosophy is a major source of modern conservatism.

The second wave — developed largely by various historicist schools of thought, especially in the nineteenth century — replaced belief in the idea of a fixed human nature with a belief in human «plasticity» and capacity for moral progress and transformation.

To complicate matters, there are fans of rationalistic and speculative forms of process thought who dwell on how process metaphysics, including God, transcend any particular history, reading Whitehead and Hartshorne as though they were old historicists, like Paul Tillich.

Progressivist historicists (in the Rousseau / Hegel mode) think of the French Revolution or some subsequent event in its spirit as an «absolute moment» of human emancipation both practical and theoretical.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

Neo-Historism, also known as Neo-Historicism, comprises artistic styles that draw their inspiration from recreating historicist styles or artisans.

Libeskind's work is characterized by a unique combination of historicist appropriation and improvisational arranging.

The movement, especially spearheaded by the witty Michelangelo Pistoletto and mischievous historicist Giulio Paolini, looked to the quotidian for both its subjects and material, and often poked fun at or unearthed the absurdity of life.

Greenblatt is a reductive New Historicist into whose mill a thousand works can go, and all will come out sounding like a cross between Leviathan and Heart of Darkness.

: A Process Philosophical Refutation Of Historicist Relativism»

They agree, too, in being historicists.

Posts 5 - 9, with # 7 excepted, are about rock and the historicist pacifist hope, with # 9 connecting such «pacifism» with the mainstreaming of anger - expression.

A historicist view denies existence of archaic man.

All of this is central to a historicist view of the world.

So reason the historicist advocates of epistemic relativism.

By overemphasizing the historicist and utilitarian character of conservative thought, Muller inevitably is forced to downplay an equally fundamental conservative theme: the critique of moral and philosophical relativism in the name of a permanent order of things.

Rorty would have us become «liberal ironists,» people who are sufficiently nominalist and historicist to appreciate their own fallibility and the radical contingency of their fundamental beliefs and desires, and yet who «include among these ungroundable desires their own hope that suffering will be diminished, that the humiliation of human beings by other human beings may cease» (CIS xv).

For his part, Hauerwas says, «I'm a historicist all the way down.»

Well, we could talk in general terms about whether «catharsis» or «shock - tactics» might provide one, but the bottom - line is that there can be no justification for «Masters of War» unless the historicist or Leninist theories about war are true.

Even if his historicist nonsense should not be called....