| 单词 |
reification |
| 释义 |
reification|riːɪfɪˈkeɪʃən, reɪɪf-|
[f. L. rē-s a thing (cf. real a.2) + -ification.]
The mental conversion of a person or abstract concept into a thing. Also, depersonalization, esp. such as Marx thought was due to capitalist industrialization in which the worker is considered as the quantifiable labour factor in production or as a commodity.
1846Grote Greece (1851) I. 467 note, Boiocalus would have had some trouble to make his tribe comprehend the re-ification of the god Hêlios. 1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 74 A process of what may be called reification, or the conscious conversion of what had hitherto been regarded as living beings into impersonal substances. 1882J. B. Stallo Concepts & Th. Mod. Physics 269 The existence, or possibility, of transcendental space is another flagrant instance of the reification of concepts. 1937T. Parsons Struct. Soc. Action xiii. 476 Positivistic empiricism has been predominantly a matter of the ‘reification’ of theoretical systems. 1941H. Marcuse Reason & Revol. ii. i. 279 Marx's early writings are the first explicit statement of the process of reification (Verdinglichung) through which capitalist society makes all personal relations between men take the form of objective relations between things. 1954H. J. Eysenck Psychol. Politics viii. 262 Freud's reification of mental mechanisms is a literary rather than a scientific device. 1962Macquarrie & Robinson tr. Heidegger's Being & Time i. i. 72 The Thinghood itself which such reification implies must have its ontological origin demonstrated. 1971J. J. Shapiro tr. Habermas's Toward Rational Soc. iii. 39 The active assault upon culture is based on the same reification as the fetishism of those students who believe that by occupying university classrooms they are taking possession of science as a productive force. 1976G. Therborn Sci., Class & Soc. i. 26 The ugly consequences, in Friedrich's view, result from a ‘reification’ of the current epistemological stance of science. 1979E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order v. 143 To see the [wavy] line as water, mountains or, perhaps, a fluttering ribbon might be described as ‘reification’, to see it as a living serpent as ‘animation’. |
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单词 reigh 释义 † reigh Obs.Forms: 1 reoh(c)he, 3 rehe, rihe, 4 righe, 5 rege, reyh(h)e, ......