thingismn.

1935 A. E. Briggs Concept of Personality iv. 29 One has to contend here with the prejudice which conceives of property as having existence wholly independent of human beings. Such thingism is the vice of property ideas which led to the evil use of property now prevalent.

1950 D. A. Gallagher in V. Ferm Hist. Philos. Syst. xxxvi. 464 If we take Thomist metaphysics as one of ens (being) in a purely formal way—and some of Thomas' followers have been guilty of spreading this misconception—then it is the most abstract of abstractions or what Gilson terms a ‘thingism’.

1961 Guardian 7 Feb. 9/6 M. Robbe-Grillet..hears his method described as ‘thingism’ because he concentrates on..things.

1966 H. T. Moore 20th Cent. Fr. Lit. II. v. 116 They often produce the antiroman (antinovel) or indulge in chosisme (which might be literally translated as thingism)... In their novels and manifestoes, the antinovelists emphasize their escape from the conventional novel's preoccupation with straight-line plot, psychological analysis, and moral involvements. The group of chosistes concentrate on material objects because, in the words of one of their practitioners and spokesmen, Alain Robbe-Grillet, ‘things are there’.

2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Aug. Our culture of ‘thing-ism’ (in which materialistic things are paramount and one's humanity/divinity counts for little).