单词 | presentism |
例句 | That kind of presentism is a delicate lifeline. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z A word I sometimes noticed bandied about this year when talking about pop culture was “presentism.” Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Here, then, are five prime antidotes to digital presentism; my fellow Times critics will offer more favorites each week. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z I wonder if something like the opposite is happening now: The allure of presentism is causing people to romanticize contemporary perspectives at the expense of an excessively vilified past. Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Sweet then turned to the “elephant in the room,” the debate over presentism. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z It seemed a long way from the presentism debate. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z If anything, these looks back should be reminders to stay vigilant against presentism, conventional wisdom and the numbing orthodoxy of groupthink. Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, “presentism” is a philosophical term describing “the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.” Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z That said, perspective is important in history and I don't believe in "presentism," the idea that we can hold people who lived in other times to the moral and legal standards of our own. Were the founding fathers "woke"? Well, compared to the modern-day GOP — definitely 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z I am proud to be woke, as are most liberals, and we do not subscribe to “presentism” or focus on statues. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: About that wokeness at Princeton 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Today’s disparagement of Witherspoon is more than just another example of “presentism” — judging the past through the lens of the present. Opinion | Wokeness in all its self-flattering moral vanity comes for a statue at Princeton 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z And it echoes a heated debate among historians over presentism, which is the tendency to use the moral lens of today to interpret past eras and people. How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Is “presentism” — judging people in the past by the standards of the present day — an unfair and misleading measure? America struggles with the history of Thanksgiving 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Yes, liberal extremists offer the right lots of targets, but most Democrats are not supportive of defunding police, campus gag rules, limitless presentism, etc. Opinion | An unlikely solution to partisanship, no matter how wanted 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z One of the driving ideas on the left right now is presentism: the notion that figures from the past can legitimately be judged by contemporary mores and values. Once the future, US now captive to its past 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “It’s known as presentism: it’s judging the events of five centuries ago by the standards of the 21st century.” After 500 years, Cortés still looms large on both sides of Atlantic 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z We spend a part of the first class discussing the fallacy of “presentism,” through which the values, mores and conventions of the present day are used to judge, almost always harshly and sanctimoniously, our predecessors. Opinion | We won’t know how foolish we look until a long time from now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z We don’t have to engage in self-righteous “presentism” — viewing the past through present values, thus making it difficult to really understand history — to condemn Jackson. Andrew Jackson economics 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Our professional canons warn us against presentism — we are supposed to weigh the evidence of the past on its own terms — but at the same time, the questions we ask are conditioned by the present. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Of all the prejudices of pundits, presentism is the strongest. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The “insistent presentism” that became a permanent mentality in the 1960s cripples our ability to contemplate where we came from or can go. Opinion | To understand today’s politics, look at Yale in the ’60s 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The European peoples of a century ago fell hard for the errors of presentism. Opinion | We won’t know how foolish we look until a long time from now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z One trap is “presentism,” the idea that whatever is happening now will keep happening. This time it really is the end of Trump. Really. 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Many seem to fall into “presentism,” i.e., judging the past by present standards. The North’s lack of arrogance over its Civil War victory 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Taking a prevention-first approach reaps benefits in the workplace as well: An unhealthy population leads to higher rates of absenteeism and presentism. Focus on Prevention to Cut U.S. Health Care Costs 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It already suffers far too much from narrow vocationalism and presentism under pressure to reflect our era’s “needs” or social aims. Universities on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z This “presentism” effects every corner of our lives from finance to politics to entertainment. The Present Shock Of The Harlem Shake 2013-02-18T20:51:33Z |
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