reflectionism

Noun

1. The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.
   • Economic determinism is the central tenet of political theory and "naive" reflectionism is the basic premise of cultural theory. - 1996, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, Powerless Fictions?:, page 180:
   • Reflectionism is the other side of the coin of normative realism . - 2001, Ching-Mei Esther Yau, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, page 62:
   • Aesthetically, such a position locates the genre of hip hop within the orthodox Marxist theory of representation that is commonly known as reflectionism, and associated with Marxist theorist and literary critic, Georg...
2. The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind; the idea that thought is a reflection of reality, rather than something created by the mind.
   • Doesn't reflectionism itself imply that ontology is somehow prior? - 1985, Johan van der Auwera, Language and Logic: A speculative and condition-theoretic study, page 17:
   • That such reflectionism — the required subservience of language to reality — lies at the heart of what comes across as a radical resistance against Communist ideology is something profoundly disturbing. Translated into...
   • Reflectionism is a philosophy that paradoxically accepts both monistic and dualistic views. This amounts to "having your cake and eating it too." - 1997, Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier, page 119:
3. The belief that judgement is intuitive and that reflection and reason are subsequently applied to justify judgements.
   • I hope by now to have shown that there is good reason to think that ethical reflectionism is a framework of moral inquiry which is far more common than it may appear. - 1997, Robert Audi, Moral Knowledge and Ethical...
   • (see title) - 2018, Gordon Pennycook, The New Reflectionism in Cognitive Psychology:
   • In Audi's view, the method of reflectionism is and deserves to be our basic method for justifying ethical judgments' (1993, 208) - 2022, Hossein Dabbagh, The Moral Epistemology of Intuitionism:
4. The use of reflection to examine and critique aspects of society.
   • Reflectionism allows society to confront itself or to see its own absurdity. - 1998, Bart Lootsma, Andreas Broeckmann, Joke Brouwer, The Art of the Accident, page 60:
   • The successor to surrealism, from which it borrows its pictorial vocabulary and has assimilated all inflow, reflectionism seeks first and foremost to develop and extend the freedom of the real function of thought. -...
   • Reflectionism employs the tactic of appropriating tools of authoritative organizations and resituating those tools in a disorienting manner toward undercutting the privilege of the organization, in essence leveling (or...