reification

re·i·fy (r

-f

, r

tr.v. re·i·fied, re·i·fy·ing, re·i·fies

To regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

[Latin rs, r-, thing; see r- in Indo-European roots + -fy.]

rei·fi·cation (-f

-k

n) n.

rei·fier n.

reification

the conversion of an abstract concept into something concrete; a viewing of the abstract as concrete.

See also: Thinking

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Noun	1.	reification - regarding something abstract as a material thing hypostatisation, hypostatization objectification - the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
	2.	reification - representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual" depersonalisation, depersonalization objectification - the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing

Translations

reification [ˌriːɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] N → cosificación f

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95 Paperback B809 If "All reification is forgetting," as critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, then the task of critical theory, according to Ludovisi (John Cabot U.

Nostalgia for a redeemed future; critical theory by Reference & Research Book News

Like the Shiite clerics, adepts of the Critical Theory claimed that the reification of scientific (or rational) thought had become so radical that it had become a means of dominance and control of the environment, nature and of Man himself.

Resistance - Book Review by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

His employment of theoretical models, while at the same time expressing a rejection of philosophical positivism, iyeluctably, enabled him to effectively avoid slipping into reification.

Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri 1938-2008 by Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

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