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organicism

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or·gan·i·cism (ôr-gn-szm)
n.
1. The theory that all disease is associated with structural alterations of organs.
2. The theory that the total organization of an organism, rather than the functioning of individual organs, is the principal or exclusive determinant of every life process.


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The idea is something akin to the social organicism implied by the concept of "the folk.
The most convincing heir of Frank Lloyd Wright's organicism, Lautner constantly struggled to distinguish his late-Romantic visions from the glittering, self-absorbed city that supported him.
And what we had in common, over and above our individualistic non-conformity, was precisely the organicism of a modern spirit that experimented freely while being rooted in its collective national being.
 
 
 
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