Noun
a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history
Source: WordNetThe junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. [...] To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense. Camille Paglia
Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational flourishing of tradition, and open the present to a multidimensional temporality. Russell Berman
How can historicism consistently exempt itself from its own verdict that all human thought is historical? Laurence Lampert
Anthropological In the context of anthropology and other sciences which study the past, historicism has a different meaning. Source: Internet
Another of his targets is what he terms "moral historicism", the attempt to infer moral values from the course of history. Source: Internet
Constructed in 1955, it was designed by Soviet architect Lev Rudnev in "Seven Sisters" style and was inspired by Polish historicism and American art deco high-rise buildings. Source: Internet