[thinktwice]

This denial has found good ground ever since historicism struck the Continent blind to the flesh and blood of history. You know the history.

I had to look "historicism" up and discovered this ...

historicism -- a theory of history that holds that the course of events is determined by unchangeable laws or cyclic patterns.

So I'd like to know what you're talking about because, frankly, it seems to me like historicism most aptly applies to a fatalistic theological approach to history.

[cornelis]

Historicism can take root in any worldview, religious or secular. The mistake in it is to say that "what is real" hinges on the aspect of historical patterns alone. There's more the the world than historical patterns. It's easy to say reality is what there is. And it's okay, I suppose, to say we have to be objective about it, to say that reality, at bottom, is something the same for you and me and others. But that rock-bottom sameness is not a historical pattern. Nor is it logical, or mathematical (as Descartes thought) or economic (Marx). It runs deeper.

[Aquinasfan]

So I'd like to know what you're talking about because, frankly, it seems to me like historicism most aptly applies to a fatalistic theological approach to history.

See Hegel, Marx, and Communism.