Definition of particularism in English:

particularism

noun pəˈtɪkjʊlərɪz(ə)mpərˈtɪkjələˌrɪzəm

mass noun

1Exclusive attachment to one's own group, party, or nation.
such barriers are created by local particularism and privilege
count noun religious and cultural particularisms
Example sentencesExamples
- Usually they're mocked as advocating some old-fashioned left-wing politics or some particularism, like saving local conditions against globalism.
- The Singapore case, however, points to another dimension of the politics of community that brings us back to the communitarian defense of cultural particularism.
- This, and other similar projects, came to naught because once such bodies went beyond a rhetorical expression of equality, they found themselves confronted by the imposing obstacles of particularism, privilege, and precedent.
- Cowan also discusses the erosion of municipal liberties by central governments bent on expanding their authority, expunging local particularism, and exercising tighter control over urban finances.
- In sum, local growth orientation has become too weak, partial, and spasmodic to overcome the restrictive force of local particularism, which today dominates policy almost everywhere.
- This sort of tolerant encouragement of local particularism was undermined, however, by a powerful statist dimension in imperial attitudes.
- The first threat followed from a rising tide of exclusionary, intolerant ethnic particularism, the second from the blurring, ultimately homogenising force of global consumerism.
- From Lowry's perspective, by contrast, national particularism can never be an unmitigatedly constructive force.
- A universal religion, by contrast, is indifferent to ethnic civic life, transcends cultural particularism, and stands aloof from issues to do with the reproduction of the tribe.
- There is, in fact, a natural cap on local property tax rates imposed by local particularism.
- To enable basic tax reform at the local level we must deal with local particularism.
- First of all, it is radically opposed to narrow ethnic particularism.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
1. 1.1 The principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole.
  Example sentencesExamples
  This means that any critique of liberalism is self-contradictory if it promotes particularism as an alternative.
  In Italy and Germany they expressed a desire for national unity and an opposition to the feudal particularism that was embodied in the many small states that then divided these nations.
  Howard's admirable insistence on historical particularism and multicultural inclusion raises another set of questions.
  While Reed remains a major figure with an increasingly international outlook, like the philosophers of the Enlightenment, his internationalism remains strongly tied to particularism.
  Identity politics, particularism, and localism against the uniformity of abstract universalism are common features of the postmodern condition.
  Imposed globalism incites pre-meditated particularism as an antidote to homogeneity.
  I hope we would all agree, that the type of particularism, which sent Popper into exile, which resulted in the catastrophes in central Europe, and continues to cause major catastrophes today, that this is not an acceptable alternative.
  To separate nationalism from regionalism or particularism is difficult and often depends upon the eye of the observer.
  This trained them in a kind of perverse particularism and made them ready to defend the concrete institutions of a given place - however evil.
  Behind the façade of German unification, German particularism still thrived.
  Cults and sacrifices in classical Greece were intimately linked to civic distinctions and in their staggering multiplicity they also reflect the regionalism and particularism of classical Greek society.
  It was a progressive movement whenever it was directed against feudal particularism.
  This, coupled with Norway's decision to reject the European Union, suggests a simmering and underestimated particularism and nationalism.
  It has often been noted that German society retains a small town ethos, which arose in the early modern period under conditions of political and economic particularism.
  The development of the market broke down the particularism of earlier forms of society and represented a tremendous advance in social organisation.
  Isn't it precisely the case that US particularism is the universal ideology at the moment, inasmuch as few bat an eyelid when values like democracy and liberalism are claimed as ‘American values’?
  But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress?
  In an earlier period, when they were directed against feudal particularism and colonialism, struggles to form nation-states had a progressive content, were unifying movements.
  However convenient in other respects, it was thought likely to be a cause of permanent German resentment, unless perhaps particularism were to revive in the historic provinces such as Bavaria.
  Previously, political life had been characterised by vehement feuds between the various conservative parties, which had their roots far back in the period of German particularism.
2Theology
The doctrine that some but not all people are elected and redeemed.
Example sentencesExamples
- One further point is that even the propensity to pair universalism and inclusivism over against particularism and exclusivism is problematic when applied to the biblical period.
- You have also decided to pursue Muslim particularism.
- Surely the kind of moral universalism to which all four thinkers aspired is no less an aspect of the Jewish experience in modernity than the assertion of Jewish particularism.
- He believes that concern for social justice is integral to Judaism - that universalism is an aspect, so to speak, of Jewish particularism.
- In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith.

Derivatives

particularist

noun & adjective pəˈtɪkjʊlərɪst

Rifts are common and frequent, and continually being patched over or exploited by different would-be leaders seeking a panethnic or more particularist base.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to Barber, intelligent citizens who refuse to become either narrow particularists or dumbed-down consumers will eventually organise to restrain the power of both forces.
- One reason this sometimes occurs is that its formal processes are functionally defective in permitting the particularist interests of unjust associations to block effective decision-making for intervention and rescue.
- Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed.
- With the Soviets gone, the world left pins its hopes on the American Empire to stir moral rhetoric and provide financial help and weapons of mass destruction to be used against the remaining ‘fascists,’ nationalists, and particularists.

particularistic

adjective

Resistance has been ubiquitous in slave systems, but it has usually been particularistic - freedom for a given person or group - and often frustrated.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the longer term, however, the sovereign state, in alliance with liberal ideals, moved beyond particularistic notions of justice to universal ones.
- While it is tempting to call for a pro-modernity balance, this would only be falling into the one-sided, particularistic trap.
- If this is Western society's hierarchical pecking order, it's no wonder that particularistic groups seek to court and sustain victimhood at every opportunity.
- There is nothing wrong with a humanitarian intent, but one must always be sceptical of particularistic motives hiding behind the assertion of a universalist ethic.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French particularisme, modern Latin particularismus, and German Partikularismus, based on Latin particularis 'concerning a small part'.

Definition of particularism in US English:

particularism

nounpərˈtikyələˌrizəmpərˈtɪkjələˌrɪzəm

1Exclusive attachment to one's own group, party, or nation.
Example sentencesExamples
- This sort of tolerant encouragement of local particularism was undermined, however, by a powerful statist dimension in imperial attitudes.
- Usually they're mocked as advocating some old-fashioned left-wing politics or some particularism, like saving local conditions against globalism.
- Cowan also discusses the erosion of municipal liberties by central governments bent on expanding their authority, expunging local particularism, and exercising tighter control over urban finances.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
- The Singapore case, however, points to another dimension of the politics of community that brings us back to the communitarian defense of cultural particularism.
- The first threat followed from a rising tide of exclusionary, intolerant ethnic particularism, the second from the blurring, ultimately homogenising force of global consumerism.
- From Lowry's perspective, by contrast, national particularism can never be an unmitigatedly constructive force.
- A universal religion, by contrast, is indifferent to ethnic civic life, transcends cultural particularism, and stands aloof from issues to do with the reproduction of the tribe.
- To enable basic tax reform at the local level we must deal with local particularism.
- First of all, it is radically opposed to narrow ethnic particularism.
- This, and other similar projects, came to naught because once such bodies went beyond a rhetorical expression of equality, they found themselves confronted by the imposing obstacles of particularism, privilege, and precedent.
- In sum, local growth orientation has become too weak, partial, and spasmodic to overcome the restrictive force of local particularism, which today dominates policy almost everywhere.
- There is, in fact, a natural cap on local property tax rates imposed by local particularism.
1. 1.1 The principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Previously, political life had been characterised by vehement feuds between the various conservative parties, which had their roots far back in the period of German particularism.
  Behind the façade of German unification, German particularism still thrived.
  This trained them in a kind of perverse particularism and made them ready to defend the concrete institutions of a given place - however evil.
  Howard's admirable insistence on historical particularism and multicultural inclusion raises another set of questions.
  While Reed remains a major figure with an increasingly international outlook, like the philosophers of the Enlightenment, his internationalism remains strongly tied to particularism.
  In an earlier period, when they were directed against feudal particularism and colonialism, struggles to form nation-states had a progressive content, were unifying movements.
  The development of the market broke down the particularism of earlier forms of society and represented a tremendous advance in social organisation.
  It has often been noted that German society retains a small town ethos, which arose in the early modern period under conditions of political and economic particularism.
  Isn't it precisely the case that US particularism is the universal ideology at the moment, inasmuch as few bat an eyelid when values like democracy and liberalism are claimed as ‘American values’?
  Imposed globalism incites pre-meditated particularism as an antidote to homogeneity.
  Cults and sacrifices in classical Greece were intimately linked to civic distinctions and in their staggering multiplicity they also reflect the regionalism and particularism of classical Greek society.
  In Italy and Germany they expressed a desire for national unity and an opposition to the feudal particularism that was embodied in the many small states that then divided these nations.
  Identity politics, particularism, and localism against the uniformity of abstract universalism are common features of the postmodern condition.
  This, coupled with Norway's decision to reject the European Union, suggests a simmering and underestimated particularism and nationalism.
  However convenient in other respects, it was thought likely to be a cause of permanent German resentment, unless perhaps particularism were to revive in the historic provinces such as Bavaria.
  I hope we would all agree, that the type of particularism, which sent Popper into exile, which resulted in the catastrophes in central Europe, and continues to cause major catastrophes today, that this is not an acceptable alternative.
  To separate nationalism from regionalism or particularism is difficult and often depends upon the eye of the observer.
  This means that any critique of liberalism is self-contradictory if it promotes particularism as an alternative.
  It was a progressive movement whenever it was directed against feudal particularism.
  But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress?
2. 1.2Theology The doctrine that some but not all people are elected and redeemed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He believes that concern for social justice is integral to Judaism - that universalism is an aspect, so to speak, of Jewish particularism.
  You have also decided to pursue Muslim particularism.
  Surely the kind of moral universalism to which all four thinkers aspired is no less an aspect of the Jewish experience in modernity than the assertion of Jewish particularism.
  In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith.
  One further point is that even the propensity to pair universalism and inclusivism over against particularism and exclusivism is problematic when applied to the biblical period.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French particularisme, modern Latin particularismus, and German Partikularismus, based on Latin particularis ‘concerning a small part’.

单词	particularism
释义	Definition of particularism in English: particularism noun pəˈtɪkjʊlərɪz(ə)mpərˈtɪkjələˌrɪzəm mass noun 1Exclusive attachment to one's own group, party, or nation. such barriers are created by local particularism and privilege count noun religious and cultural particularisms Example sentencesExamples Usually they're mocked as advocating some old-fashioned left-wing politics or some particularism, like saving local conditions against globalism. The Singapore case, however, points to another dimension of the politics of community that brings us back to the communitarian defense of cultural particularism. This, and other similar projects, came to naught because once such bodies went beyond a rhetorical expression of equality, they found themselves confronted by the imposing obstacles of particularism, privilege, and precedent. Cowan also discusses the erosion of municipal liberties by central governments bent on expanding their authority, expunging local particularism, and exercising tighter control over urban finances. In sum, local growth orientation has become too weak, partial, and spasmodic to overcome the restrictive force of local particularism, which today dominates policy almost everywhere. This sort of tolerant encouragement of local particularism was undermined, however, by a powerful statist dimension in imperial attitudes. The first threat followed from a rising tide of exclusionary, intolerant ethnic particularism, the second from the blurring, ultimately homogenising force of global consumerism. From Lowry's perspective, by contrast, national particularism can never be an unmitigatedly constructive force. A universal religion, by contrast, is indifferent to ethnic civic life, transcends cultural particularism, and stands aloof from issues to do with the reproduction of the tribe. There is, in fact, a natural cap on local property tax rates imposed by local particularism. To enable basic tax reform at the local level we must deal with local particularism. First of all, it is radically opposed to narrow ethnic particularism. Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism? 1.1 The principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole. Example sentencesExamples This means that any critique of liberalism is self-contradictory if it promotes particularism as an alternative. In Italy and Germany they expressed a desire for national unity and an opposition to the feudal particularism that was embodied in the many small states that then divided these nations. Howard's admirable insistence on historical particularism and multicultural inclusion raises another set of questions. While Reed remains a major figure with an increasingly international outlook, like the philosophers of the Enlightenment, his internationalism remains strongly tied to particularism. Identity politics, particularism, and localism against the uniformity of abstract universalism are common features of the postmodern condition. Imposed globalism incites pre-meditated particularism as an antidote to homogeneity. I hope we would all agree, that the type of particularism, which sent Popper into exile, which resulted in the catastrophes in central Europe, and continues to cause major catastrophes today, that this is not an acceptable alternative. To separate nationalism from regionalism or particularism is difficult and often depends upon the eye of the observer. This trained them in a kind of perverse particularism and made them ready to defend the concrete institutions of a given place - however evil. Behind the façade of German unification, German particularism still thrived. Cults and sacrifices in classical Greece were intimately linked to civic distinctions and in their staggering multiplicity they also reflect the regionalism and particularism of classical Greek society. It was a progressive movement whenever it was directed against feudal particularism. This, coupled with Norway's decision to reject the European Union, suggests a simmering and underestimated particularism and nationalism. It has often been noted that German society retains a small town ethos, which arose in the early modern period under conditions of political and economic particularism. The development of the market broke down the particularism of earlier forms of society and represented a tremendous advance in social organisation. Isn't it precisely the case that US particularism is the universal ideology at the moment, inasmuch as few bat an eyelid when values like democracy and liberalism are claimed as ‘American values’? But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress? In an earlier period, when they were directed against feudal particularism and colonialism, struggles to form nation-states had a progressive content, were unifying movements. However convenient in other respects, it was thought likely to be a cause of permanent German resentment, unless perhaps particularism were to revive in the historic provinces such as Bavaria. Previously, political life had been characterised by vehement feuds between the various conservative parties, which had their roots far back in the period of German particularism. 2Theology The doctrine that some but not all people are elected and redeemed. Example sentencesExamples One further point is that even the propensity to pair universalism and inclusivism over against particularism and exclusivism is problematic when applied to the biblical period. You have also decided to pursue Muslim particularism. Surely the kind of moral universalism to which all four thinkers aspired is no less an aspect of the Jewish experience in modernity than the assertion of Jewish particularism. He believes that concern for social justice is integral to Judaism - that universalism is an aspect, so to speak, of Jewish particularism. In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith. Derivatives particularist noun & adjective pəˈtɪkjʊlərɪst Rifts are common and frequent, and continually being patched over or exploited by different would-be leaders seeking a panethnic or more particularist base. Example sentencesExamples According to Barber, intelligent citizens who refuse to become either narrow particularists or dumbed-down consumers will eventually organise to restrain the power of both forces. One reason this sometimes occurs is that its formal processes are functionally defective in permitting the particularist interests of unjust associations to block effective decision-making for intervention and rescue. Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed. With the Soviets gone, the world left pins its hopes on the American Empire to stir moral rhetoric and provide financial help and weapons of mass destruction to be used against the remaining ‘fascists,’ nationalists, and particularists. particularistic adjective Resistance has been ubiquitous in slave systems, but it has usually been particularistic - freedom for a given person or group - and often frustrated. Example sentencesExamples In the longer term, however, the sovereign state, in alliance with liberal ideals, moved beyond particularistic notions of justice to universal ones. While it is tempting to call for a pro-modernity balance, this would only be falling into the one-sided, particularistic trap. If this is Western society's hierarchical pecking order, it's no wonder that particularistic groups seek to court and sustain victimhood at every opportunity. There is nothing wrong with a humanitarian intent, but one must always be sceptical of particularistic motives hiding behind the assertion of a universalist ethic. Origin Early 19th century: from French particularisme, modern Latin particularismus, and German Partikularismus, based on Latin particularis 'concerning a small part'. Definition of particularism in US English: particularism nounpərˈtikyələˌrizəmpərˈtɪkjələˌrɪzəm 1Exclusive attachment to one's own group, party, or nation. Example sentencesExamples This sort of tolerant encouragement of local particularism was undermined, however, by a powerful statist dimension in imperial attitudes. Usually they're mocked as advocating some old-fashioned left-wing politics or some particularism, like saving local conditions against globalism. Cowan also discusses the erosion of municipal liberties by central governments bent on expanding their authority, expunging local particularism, and exercising tighter control over urban finances. Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism? The Singapore case, however, points to another dimension of the politics of community that brings us back to the communitarian defense of cultural particularism. The first threat followed from a rising tide of exclusionary, intolerant ethnic particularism, the second from the blurring, ultimately homogenising force of global consumerism. From Lowry's perspective, by contrast, national particularism can never be an unmitigatedly constructive force. A universal religion, by contrast, is indifferent to ethnic civic life, transcends cultural particularism, and stands aloof from issues to do with the reproduction of the tribe. To enable basic tax reform at the local level we must deal with local particularism. First of all, it is radically opposed to narrow ethnic particularism. This, and other similar projects, came to naught because once such bodies went beyond a rhetorical expression of equality, they found themselves confronted by the imposing obstacles of particularism, privilege, and precedent. In sum, local growth orientation has become too weak, partial, and spasmodic to overcome the restrictive force of local particularism, which today dominates policy almost everywhere. There is, in fact, a natural cap on local property tax rates imposed by local particularism. 1.1 The principle of leaving each state in an empire or federation free to govern itself and promote its own interests, without reference to those of the whole. Example sentencesExamples Previously, political life had been characterised by vehement feuds between the various conservative parties, which had their roots far back in the period of German particularism. Behind the façade of German unification, German particularism still thrived. This trained them in a kind of perverse particularism and made them ready to defend the concrete institutions of a given place - however evil. Howard's admirable insistence on historical particularism and multicultural inclusion raises another set of questions. While Reed remains a major figure with an increasingly international outlook, like the philosophers of the Enlightenment, his internationalism remains strongly tied to particularism. In an earlier period, when they were directed against feudal particularism and colonialism, struggles to form nation-states had a progressive content, were unifying movements. The development of the market broke down the particularism of earlier forms of society and represented a tremendous advance in social organisation. It has often been noted that German society retains a small town ethos, which arose in the early modern period under conditions of political and economic particularism. Isn't it precisely the case that US particularism is the universal ideology at the moment, inasmuch as few bat an eyelid when values like democracy and liberalism are claimed as ‘American values’? Imposed globalism incites pre-meditated particularism as an antidote to homogeneity. Cults and sacrifices in classical Greece were intimately linked to civic distinctions and in their staggering multiplicity they also reflect the regionalism and particularism of classical Greek society. In Italy and Germany they expressed a desire for national unity and an opposition to the feudal particularism that was embodied in the many small states that then divided these nations. Identity politics, particularism, and localism against the uniformity of abstract universalism are common features of the postmodern condition. This, coupled with Norway's decision to reject the European Union, suggests a simmering and underestimated particularism and nationalism. However convenient in other respects, it was thought likely to be a cause of permanent German resentment, unless perhaps particularism were to revive in the historic provinces such as Bavaria. I hope we would all agree, that the type of particularism, which sent Popper into exile, which resulted in the catastrophes in central Europe, and continues to cause major catastrophes today, that this is not an acceptable alternative. To separate nationalism from regionalism or particularism is difficult and often depends upon the eye of the observer. This means that any critique of liberalism is self-contradictory if it promotes particularism as an alternative. It was a progressive movement whenever it was directed against feudal particularism. But where to draw the line between present needs and future aspirations, between particularism and universalism, between cultural difference and economic progress? 1.2Theology The doctrine that some but not all people are elected and redeemed. Example sentencesExamples He believes that concern for social justice is integral to Judaism - that universalism is an aspect, so to speak, of Jewish particularism. You have also decided to pursue Muslim particularism. Surely the kind of moral universalism to which all four thinkers aspired is no less an aspect of the Jewish experience in modernity than the assertion of Jewish particularism. In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith. One further point is that even the propensity to pair universalism and inclusivism over against particularism and exclusivism is problematic when applied to the biblical period. Origin Early 19th century: from French particularisme, modern Latin particularismus, and German Partikularismus, based on Latin particularis ‘concerning a small part’.
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