situationismn.

1929 R. H. Dotterer Philos. by Way of Sci. v. 155 Situationism, or occasionalism repudiates the alleged axiom that ‘there can be no more in the effect than there was in the cause’.

1966 J. Fletcher Situation Ethics i. 29 There are various names for this approach: situationism, contextualism, occasionalism, circumstantialism, even actualism.

2008 Jrnl. Business Ethics 83 823/1 Exceptionism and situationism were the most common ethics positions at the national level, displayed by two-thirds of the countries in the survey.

1964 M. Bernstein in Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 781/4 Our International..coming after the development both of our philosophy and of our art, at once refuses to proclaim any sort of doctrine and rejects the term ‘situationism’ as used only by enemies of the situationist programme.

1973 Listener 2 Aug. 152/1 The Angry Brigade['s]..communiqués suggest..a combination of situationism and Syndicalism.

1978 Radio Times 28 Jan. 15/3 One philosophical strain, peculiar to developed countries, was ‘Situationism’. At its simplest, its followers believe the working class has been bamboozled out of its legitimate rights by a capitalist conspiracy that ‘appropriated’ trade unionism and socialism, then ‘laundered’ and returned them as harmless institutions.

2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Feb. (Spectrum section) 8 The two bands..looked to past cultural movements such as dada, surrealism and situationism to comment on everything from consumerism to politics to human relationships.