historicism.
/hi-stawr-uh-siz-uhm, -stor-/US // hɪˈstɔr əˌsɪz əm, -ˈstɒr- //UK // (hɪˈstɒrɪˌsɪzəm) //
历史主义,历程主义,史学派
Definitions
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›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.
- ›a search for laws of historical evolution that would explain and predict historical phenomena.
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