| What is crucial for understanding Strauss and Straussians like Zuckert is why Strauss thinks esotericism is an answer to historicism. |
| Thus criticism of the Historical Critical Method as historicism is incorrect, even though the method has been misused in that way. |
| He explains Weber's transition from historicism to a historical social science. |
| This, it seems to me, is the reason why theory is capable of replacing new historicism altogether. |
| I understated the grouchiness of the article, and his obvious unhappiness with a lot of new historicism. |
| This is post-metaphysical historicism, after all, and what historicists do is narrate. |
