No foundational critique links historicism’s growth to imperialist practice.

Evidence

What, in other words, has never taken place is an epistemological critique at the most.fundamentallevel of the connection between the development of a historicism which has expanded and developed enough to include antithetical attitudes such as ideologies of Western imperialism and critiques of imperialism on the one hand, and, on the other, the actual practice of imperialism All previous ‘critiques of imperialism’ are thus effortlessly conjoined with ‘the actual practice of imperialism’, thanks to the historicist contamination. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 712

Categorization

• DEFINE: Here historicism is defined as a category capacious enough to contain both imperial ideology and its critiques, which is what makes the rhetorical move egregious.
• XREF: connects to: Orientalist scholarship cannot be detached from its imperial context — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 840; New Historicism bans theoretical distance and leaves readers empty-handed — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 432

Broader Connections

• Orientalist scholarship cannot be detached from its imperial context #corroborates (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 840
• New Historicism bans theoretical distance and leaves readers empty-handed #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 432