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单词 biologism
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Definition of biologism in English:

biologism

noun bʌɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)mbīˈäləˌjizəm
mass noun
  • The interpretation of human life from a strictly biological point of view.

    生物学主义

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One must be familiar with Lacan's movement from Freud's biologism to concerns with language in order to understand ‘the mirroring stage,’ the ‘real,’ ‘the imaginary,’ and ‘the symbolic’ that have very special meanings for this opus.
    • One can be a good Darwinian without reducing our cultural leaves to their biological roots: confusing the former with the latter is not biology but biologism, not Darwinism but Darwinosis.
    • At present, there is a resurgence of biologism in both psychology and popular culture.
    • Ferber's brief description of the African American woman, Princess, who performs domestic work for Fannie, reinforces both racial biologism and environmental determinism.
    • Does the use of ‘Geist’ Spirit counter biologism, racism and naturalism, or is it a ‘spiritualisation’ of biological racism?
    • For it was precisely from Luther's spirit of innovation that the sustenance of Darwin's biologism was first drawn.
    • According to Menninghaus, Darwinian theory, which like biologism is undergoing a renaissance, states that beauty solely serves biological selection.
    • Postmodern theory is resolutely opposed to such ‘essentialism’, but the problem with anti-essentialist approaches is that they often involve jumping from one extreme, scientism / biologism, to another, culturalism.
    • But the scholastic approach does not degenerate into biologism.
    • In a nod to biologism, she makes a comparison to animal noises: ‘could a common sparrow take the meadow lark's song?’
    • Historicism, scientism, psychologism, biologism, in general the confident use of the scientific vocabularies in the spiritual realm, has created… a spiritual disorder.

Derivatives

  • biologistic

  • adjective
    • In Helga, she creates a self-referential Melanctha of the twenties who at moments openly mocks the very biologistic literary tradition that has produced her.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As Nina rightly says, there is nothing natural, but nevertheless there are biotic defaults, and there is nothing more biologistic than poking bits of yourself into holes or rubbing bits of yourself until they are sick.
      • Harris argues for ‘the need to distinguish among ‘individual’, ‘self’ and ‘person’ as biologistic, psychologistic and sociologistic modes of conceptualising human beings.
      • That very lack of engagement enables a popularising of biologistic discourse that deserves more informed criticism.
      • In the nineteenth-century novel, when eugenic and biologistic ideologies are in place, this curative function operates within a specifically medicalized, somatized framework.

Definition of biologism in US English:

biologism

nounbīˈäləˌjizəm
  • The interpretation of human life from a strictly biological point of view.

    生物学主义

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One can be a good Darwinian without reducing our cultural leaves to their biological roots: confusing the former with the latter is not biology but biologism, not Darwinism but Darwinosis.
    • In a nod to biologism, she makes a comparison to animal noises: ‘could a common sparrow take the meadow lark's song?’
    • At present, there is a resurgence of biologism in both psychology and popular culture.
    • Ferber's brief description of the African American woman, Princess, who performs domestic work for Fannie, reinforces both racial biologism and environmental determinism.
    • Does the use of ‘Geist’ Spirit counter biologism, racism and naturalism, or is it a ‘spiritualisation’ of biological racism?
    • Historicism, scientism, psychologism, biologism, in general the confident use of the scientific vocabularies in the spiritual realm, has created… a spiritual disorder.
    • Postmodern theory is resolutely opposed to such ‘essentialism’, but the problem with anti-essentialist approaches is that they often involve jumping from one extreme, scientism / biologism, to another, culturalism.
    • According to Menninghaus, Darwinian theory, which like biologism is undergoing a renaissance, states that beauty solely serves biological selection.
    • For it was precisely from Luther's spirit of innovation that the sustenance of Darwin's biologism was first drawn.
    • But the scholastic approach does not degenerate into biologism.
    • One must be familiar with Lacan's movement from Freud's biologism to concerns with language in order to understand ‘the mirroring stage,’ the ‘real,’ ‘the imaginary,’ and ‘the symbolic’ that have very special meanings for this opus.
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