† ˈproblematize, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
intr. To propound problems.
| 1630 B. Jonson New Inn ii. ii, Hear him problematize... Or syllogize, elenchize. |
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Restrict † Obs. rare—1 to sense 1. Add: 2. trans. To render problematic; to view or interpret (an issue, etc.) as a problem requiring a solution.
| 1910 G. Saintsbury in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. V. 200 Hamlet himself is capable of being problematised to the nth. 1977 Dædalus Fall 66 Instead, the very setting up of such institutional arrangements was transposed from a given into a problem to be explained, or was ‘problematized’. 1988 Paragraph XI. 239 It problematizes the notion of place; when we read the index we do not know whether or not the entries which it gives are themselves detached, displaced fragments. |
Hence ˌproblematiˈzation n.
| 1983 Social Sci. Citation Index 1976–1980 xviii. 51210 (title) Governability—studies on its problematization. 1985 R. Hurley tr. Foucault's Hist. Sexuality II. 10 How, why, and in what forms was sexuality constituted as a moral domain? Why this ethical concern that was so persistent despite its varying forms and intensity? Why this ‘problematization’? 1988 Paragraph XI. 238 Barthes's continual problematization of his own actuality is strategic, then, and affirmative. |