Meanings
nounhistoricization (countable and uncountable, plural historicizations)
plural historicizations · alternative historicisation
- countableuncountableThe act or process of historicizing.
Despite his dislike of metaphysics and his radical 'humanization' and historicization of knowledge, Labriola did not advance any theory of the 'demise of philosophy'.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192
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