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Definition of "organicist" [organicist]

  • A sociologist who explains social phenomena by biological analogies, or who conceives and interprets society as an organism. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "organicist" in a sentence
  • "The world-soul, of course, should not be seen as a conventionally organicist concept."
  • "The latter looms as the organicist abstraction of Odic transcendentality itself, where"
  • "Combining Mladen Dolar's passing Freudian schema with Jameson's abiding Marxist one, we might say of a passage like this that the unconscious of voice itself — its lost organicist mythos — surfaces from inscription along with the attempted return, from beneath the simultaneous meliorations of euphony, of a repressed political unconscious."