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PARTISAN REVIEW
10 Joseph Frank in
Criticism:the Foundations of Modern Literary Judg.
ment,
edited by Mark Schorer, Josephine Miles, and Gordon McKenzie (New
York 1948), p. 392.
11 "Historicism," writes Karl Mannheim, "has developed into an intellec·
tual force of extraordinary significance. . . . The historicist principle not only
organizes, like an invisible thread, the work of the cultural sciences
(Geisteswis·
senschaften)
but also permeates everyday thinking. Today it is impossible to
take part in politics, even to understand a person .. . without treating all those
realities we have to deal with as having evolved and as developing dynamically.
For in everyday life, too, we apply concepts with historicist overtones, for ex·
ample, 'capitalism,' 'social movement,' 'cultural process,' etc. These forces are
grasped and understood as potentialities, constantly in flux, moving from some
point in time to another; already on the level of everyday reflection we
seek
to determine the position of our present within such a temporal framework, to
tell by the cosmic clock of history what the time
is"-Essays on the Sociology
of Kn<Jwledge
(New York 1952), p. 84.
12 Paul Tillich:
The Protestant Era
(Chicago 1948), p. 7lff.
13
Ibid,
p. 186.
