objectivismn.
/əbˈdʒɛktᵻvɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /əbˈdʒɛktəˌvɪz(ə)m/, /ɑbˈdʒɛktəˌvɪz(ə)m/ 1. The quality or character of being objective; the tendency to lay stress on what is external to or independent of the mind; (also, Philosophy) the belief that certain things (esp. moral truths) exist independently of human knowledge or perception of them.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > objectivism
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > objectivity > [noun] > objectivism
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > objectivism
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1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity xxi. 203 Belief in revelation is the culminating point of religious objectivism.
1872 W. G. Ward in Dublin Rev. Jan. 71 It is a favourite argument of Mr. Mill's, that objectivism keeps moral science in a stationary state.
1896 Philos. Rev. 5 83 He wishes to show..that pure objectivism is inapplicable to social facts.
1939 Mind 48 464 The practitioners of a certain kind of ethical theory, which is dominant in England and capably represented in America, and which is variously called objectivism, non-naturalism, or intuitionism, have frequently charged their opponents with committing the naturalistic fallacy.
1966 O. Wojtasicwicz tr. T. Kotarbinski Gnosiology ii. 68 The gap within idealist views between objectivism and subjectivism.
1995 S. Gardner in A. C. Grayling Philosophy xi. 589 Aesthetic objectivism is the doctrine that aesthetic qualities are genuine properties which inhere in objects independently of the subject's awareness.
2. Politics. In Leninist–Stalinist theory: the analysis of economic and political conditions from a supposedly neutral, objective, realistic standpoint, rather than in accordance with party principle and the requirements of the revolutionary process. Frequently in bourgeois objectivism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory
revisionism1856
practicism1931
objectivism1933
reification1937
tailism1948
practicalism1950
diversionism1955
capitulationism1963
1933 T. B. H. Brameld Philos. Approach to Communism xi. 156 An objectivism which tends to deny the significance of conscious men.
1949 tr. B. M. Kedrov in Soviet Stud. 1 85 The root of my errors is in that I violated the Leninist principle of party spirit in philosophy and deviated towards bourgeois objectivism and apoliticism.
1990 R. M. Mills As Moscow sees Us Introd. 17 Chapter 7 is an exercise in what the Soviets would call ‘bourgeois objectivism’ because it contains my critical evaluation of the various Soviet approaches and explanations.
3. The name given by Ayn Rand to her political and philosophical theories, associated esp. with advocacy of individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.
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1959 N.Y. Times 13 Sept. ii. 6 (advt.) Subscriptions are invited to Nathaniel Branden's Lectures on Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and its application to human psychology.
1961 M. S. Evans Revolt on Campus ix. 183 A number of them enlisted under the banner of Ayn Rand's ‘objectivism’, a rationalist philosophy which elevates self-interest to the cardinal principle of life.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 June a19 As a disciple of philosopher Ayn Rand's ‘objectivism’, Greenspan supposedly is a laissez-faire economist who believes that the least government is the best government.
2007 J. Sellers Perfect from now On v. 56 I briefly flirted with objectivism because a crush was once seen carrying an Ayn Rand book.
4. Literary Theory (originally U.S.). A literary movement, developing in the 1930s out of Imagism and promulgated by William Carlos Williams and others, regarding poems as objects capable of structural analysis; the beliefs or practices of this movement.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > types of literary criticism
criticism1625
critical theory1799
literary theory1807
autocriticism1820
pseudo-criticism1851
Formgeschichte1923
form-criticism1928
form-history1928
practical criticism1929
New Criticism1941
contextualism1955
patternism1956
objectivism1961
narratology1971
new historicism1972
deconstruction1973
post-structuralism1975
deconstructionism1980
theory1982
1961 K. Rexroth Assays 170 The poet Louis Zukofsky organized a ‘movement’—with manifesto—called Objectivism.
1972 Amer. Lit. 44 76 Although one of the major proponents of a poetics of Objectivism, Williams was not, according to the others, a member of the group per se.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Jan. 6/4 It isn't hard to see him as the inventor, in one passage or another, or free verse, Impressionism, Imagism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Objectivism, Projectivism,..and every ramshackle variety of postmodern juxtaposition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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