Sentence examples for historical determinism from inspiring English sources

The account, psychologically and historically informed, does not offer any hint of psychological or historical determinism.

"Crude historical determinism is mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy, an insult to the magic of the literary imagination," Huang insists.

He says he was motivated after he was persuaded to read Karl Popper's The Poverty Of Historicism, an attack on the Marxist notion of historical determinism.

[ Pages 50-51 ] Mayor Koch predicted victory because the Mets mirror the city's toughness, but Boston's Mayor Flynn said the "forces of historical determinism" are on the Red Sox side.

As for historical "lessons," including the ones in Herzl's "Der Judenstaat," we needed to learn how grotesque they could be — how grotesque historical determinism of any kind must be.

But in the end, he contends that Mr. Clinton's "casual and politically opportunistic style of decision-making was not conducive to strategic clarity, and his faith in the historical determinism of globalization made such a strategy seem unnecessary".

Drawing on Arendtian strands, Forti envisages a space for more polyvalent conceptions of revolutions that represent, in her words, "a new political space, a space of horizontal participation, against any social, historical, and natural determinism" (Forti 2017).

In tandem, Caion publicized his comparison of historical and psychological determinism, with a topical booklet.

It dances between genres and makes partners of several: one could call it steampunk for its Victoriana and etheric experimentation, science fiction for its musings on determinism, historical fantasy for the ways in which those elements are seamlessly blended with late 19th century London.

Later, several philosophers and logicians, including C. S. Peirce, raised and analysed problems relating temporality with non-determinism, historical necessity, free will, God's will and knowledge, etc., proposing various different solutions.

He tells us, however, that "accident in history is rife", dropping a clue that this is not going to be a story of historical inevitability or psychological determinism.