Meanings
- not comparablePrior to or characteristic of the views preceding realism (in various senses).
1 more example
Duncan Kennedy, in his essay "The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!" criticizes Foucault for not taking law seriously enough. He argues that Foucault has an antiquated, prerealist view of juridical power, "a typically European but utterly misconceived picture of the legal system as a domain governed by rules (as opposed to standards), by individualist (as opposed to altruist) definitions of legal rights, and by deductive (as opposed to 'policy-oriented') reasoning".
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
- Proto-Italic*reis
- Classical Latinrēs
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Late Latinreālis
- Old Frenchree
- Middle Englishreal
- Englishreal
- Englishrealist
- Englishprerealist
Cite this entry
prerealist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prerealist
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