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Historism: Historism is an approach to understanding human history and culture that emphasizes the importance of context. It recognizes that all human phenomena are products of their time and place, and that they cannot be understood in isolation. See also History, Historiography, Culture.
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David Easton on Historicism - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 490
Historicism/EastonVsHistoricism/Easton: there is a historicist view of political theory that understands politics as a history of political ideas, each conceived as an expression of its historical epoch.
EastonVsHistoricism: 1. Thus political theory is no longer an autonomous theory, but only a manifestation of a temporal epoch. 2. With this, no answers to the problems of the present can be given.
>Political theory
, >Political philosophy, >History, >Historiography.

Dieter Fuchs, “David Easton, A Systems Analysis of Political Life” in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

PolEast I
David Easton
A Systems Analysis of Political Life New York 1965

Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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