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名詞

Epsteinism (uncountable)

1. The style of sculpture associated with Jacob Epstein.
   • 1926 February 6, “A jarring note from a man of music”, in The Children's Newspaper, page 9:

     Good will come, no doubt, to painting from the crudities called Cubism, to sculpture from the horrors of Epsteinism, when all these practitioners have seen the errors of their ways and arrived at something; and so music will profit by the experiments being made by composers of this generation.

   • 1936 September, Stephen Rigby, “The Middleman in Art”, in The Month‎, volume 168, number 867:

     St. John Damascene known as the foe of iconoclasts might well become the patron of a holy iconoclasm that should rid our churches of unsightly statues, whether inspired by Epsteinism or merely vulgar.

   • 1944, Carol Aronovici, “Civic Art”, in Paul Zucker, editor, New Architecture and City Planning: A Symposium, page 367:

     Some of these have carried us into the jungles of Epsteinism in sculpture and bold outer functionalism in architecture.

2. The philosophy of Richard Epstein.
   • 1995, Michael E. Kinsley, Big babies, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207:

     And once you enter the land of metaphor, you are on a very slippery slope toward Epsteinism.

   • 1997 July 31, Ezekiel Emanuel, “Book Review Mortal Peril: Our inalienable right to health care? By Richard A. Epstein. 503 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison–Wesley, 1997. $27.50. 0-201-13647-3”, in New England Journal of Medicine‎, volume 337, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 352:

     They reject Epsteinism because it sacrifices fundamental civil and political rights on the altar of wealth maximization.

   • 1999 August 2, Jon Margolis, “The quiet Takings Project is trespassing on democracy”, in High Country News‎:

     And it is not the owners of hundred-foot-front lots, or even quarter-acre lots, who would benefit if Epsteinism were to triumph.

3. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (Internet slang, politics, synecdochic) A political system, or elite conspiracy, that enables or perpetuates crimes such as those of Jeffrey Epstein.

   Synonym: Epstein class (elite people who are allegedly associated with Jeffrey Epstein)

   • 2026 February 12, Nirmal P Acharya, “Does cap­it­al­ism devour people?”, in People's Review Weekly:

     Per­son­ally, I have a sug­ges­tion for the Marx­ist parties in Nepal: care­fully study the Epstein archives and make a choice between Marx­ism and Epstein­ism.