* 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Secession artists objected to the prevailing conservatism of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with its traditional orientation toward Historicism.

Klapwijk's title for this work was Between Historicism and Relativism: A Study in the Dynamics of Historicism and the Philosophical Development of Ernst Troeltsch ( with a German summary ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

* Hedges, W. 2000, New Historicism explained, viewed 20 March 2006

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

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.

His discussions of techniques included the panopticon, a theoretical prison system developed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and particularly useful for New Historicism.

Historicism is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place and local culture.

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.

* Karl Popper ( 1957 ), The Poverty of Historicism ( earlier published as articles in the journal " Economica ").

H. Aram Veeser, introducing an anthology of essays, The New Historicism ( 1989 ), noted some key assumptions that continually reappear in New Historicist discourse ; they were:

32, No. 3, Romantic Historicism ( Fall, 1993 ), pp. 425-451.

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

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

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.

Cultural Materialism and New Historicism.

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