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politicism

noun

Etymology

From politic + -ism.

  1. derived from πολιτικός
  2. derived from politicus
  3. borrowed from politique
  4. suffixed as politicism — “politic + ism”

Definitions

  1. A political utterance.

    • […] he had been spouting ill-considered politicisms the previous evening yet now, contrariwise, he was silent.

  2. The theory that political factors dominate over others.

    • Politicism is the view that all human endeavors are power struggles. Thus, according to Michel Foucault, even art would be cultivated for the sake of power.
    • May Hobbes's radical politicism (politics above all) and Levinas's radical ethicism (ethics before all) eventually meet at some point?
    • IPE theorists criticize some political scientists for politicism; i.e., for devoting too much attention to politics.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for politicism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA