In this view, grand theories are unprovable, and instead intensive field work would determine the most likely explanation and history of a culture, and hence it is named Historicism.

Karl Popper used the term historicism in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies, to mean: " an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the ' rhythms ' or the ' patterns ', the ' laws ' or the ' trends ' that underlie the evolution of history ".

In Popperian terms, the " New Historicism " is an example of historism rather than of historicism proper.

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

Historicism is also meant to refer to the belief and practice associated with academic art that one should incorporate and conciliate the innovations of different traditions of art from the past.

It is related with what he called the ' logic of the situation ' in an Economica article of 1944 / 1945, published later in his book The Poverty of Historicism.

Similarly, Michel Foucault's New Historicism posits that there is a quasi-linguistic structure present in any age, a metaphor around which all things that can be understood are organized.

Today, " thick description " is used in a variety of fields, including the type of literary criticism known as New Historicism.

New Historicism is a school of literary theory, grounded in critical theory, that developed in the 1980s, primarily through the work of the critic Stephen Greenblatt, and gained widespread influence in the 1990s.

New Historicism is claimed to be a more neutral approach to historical events, and to be sensitive towards different cultures.

In its historicism and in its political interpretations, New Historicism is indebted to Marxism.

New Historicism shares many of the same theories as with what is often called cultural materialism, but cultural materialist critics are even more likely to put emphasis on the present implications of their study and to position themselves in disagreement to current power structures, working to give power to traditionally disadvantaged groups.

With this in mind, New Historicism is not “ new ”.

New Historicism frequently addresses the critical theory based idea that the lowest common denominator for all human actions is power, so the New Historicist seeks to find examples of power and how it is dispersed within the text.

Although some critics believe that these former philosophers have made more of an impact on New Historicism as a whole, there is a popularly held recognition that Foucault ’ s ideas have passed through the New Historicist formation in history as a succession of épistémes or structures of thought that shape everyone and everything within a culture ( Myers 1989 ).

" Elsewhere, Paglia has suggested that New Historicism is " a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science.

The centre of the town is dominated by the building of the new town-hall, erected in 1911-1914 according to a project by prof. K. H. Kepka, replacing former military barracks, designed in the style of Historicism, with elements of Art Nouveau in the interior.

* Historicism: the chief goal of linguistic investigation is the description of the historical change of a language.

Harnessing the work of the earlier New Historicism, this emergent field of historiography began to challenge the hegemony of Medieval historians over the history which they narrate, and opens the door for new modes of thinking by the proposition that " we cannot interpret medieval culture, or any historical culture, except through the prism of the dominat concepts of our own thought worlds.

Historicism says that Biblical prophecies provide us with a broad view of history, as well as an explanation of the religious significance of historical events.

In its tendency to see society as consisting of texts relating to other texts, with no ' fixed ' literary value above and beyond the way specific societies read them in specific situations, New Historicism also owes something to postmodernism.

Just as New Historicism repudiated the New Critics ' rejection of historical context, so reader-response criticism arose partly from dissatisfaction with the concept of the text as icon.

Historicism evaluates information sources on the basis of their reflection of their sociocultural context and their theoretical development.

Historicism may be contrasted with reductionist theories, which suppose that all developments can be explained by fundamental principles ( such as in economic determinism ), or theories that posit historical changes as result of random chance.

There are also villas, particularly in the city's villa districts such as Kamienna Góra where Historicism inspired Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque architecture.

There are also villas, particularly in the city's villa districts such as Kamienna Góra where Historicism inspired Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque architecture.

In addition to Foucault's influence on New Historicism, other philosophers such as French structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser and Marxists Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton were also essential in shaping the theory of New Historicism.

The number of analytical approaches became more diverse by the latter part of the century, as critics applied theories such as structuralism, New Historicism, African American studies, queer studies, and literary semiotics to Shakespeare's works.

In his Poverty of Historicism, he identified historicism with the view that there are " inexorable laws of historical destiny ", which view he warned against.

However more ambitious movements also developed from this insight into human culture, initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of Karl Marx, and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, including, in one extreme, the German Nazi movement.

New Historicism denies the claim that society has entered a " post-modern " or " post-historical " phase and allegedly ignited the ' culture wars ' of the 1980s ( Seaton, 2000 ).

* Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism, attacks the notion that the study of history can be used to predict the future.

Historicism therefore tends to be hermeneutical, because it places great importance on cautious, rigorous and contextualized interpretation of information, and / or relativist, because it rejects notions of universal, fundamental and immutable interpretations.

Post-structuralism uses the term New Historicism, which has some connections to both anthropology and Hegelianism.

This school of thought sometimes goes by the name of New Historicism.

The Poverty of Historicism.

* Historicism vs. Art Nuoveau in architecture: Lithuanian case-True Lithuania website

In total, Wuppertal possesses over 4, 500 buildings classified as national monuments, most dating from styles as Neoclassicism, Eclecticism, Historicism, Art Nouveau / Jugendstil and Bauhaus.

" The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 24. 1, Cultural Studies and New Historicism ( 1991 ): 39-49.

The more recent influence of New Historicism and post-colonial studies have yielded readings of Shakespeare that typify the play as subversive, or challenging the status quo of Western imperialism.

Historicism considers that most prophecy has been or will be fulfilled during the present church age.

Cultural Materialism and New Historicism.

* Howard, Thomas Albert, Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L.