title: Formalism
text: # Formalism
  
  Formalism may refer to:
  
  * Form (disambiguation)
  * Formal (disambiguation)
  * Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary
  * Formalism (linguistics)
  * Scientific formalism
  * Formalism (philosophy), that there is no transcendent meaning to a discipline other than the literal content created by a practitioner
     * Religious formalism, an emphasis on the ritual and observance of religion, rather than its meaning.
     * Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), or mathematical formalism, that statements of mathematics and logic can be thought of as statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules.
     * Formalism (art), that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form
        * Formalism (music)
        * Formalist film theory, focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film
        * Formalism (literature)
           * New Formalism, a late-20th century movement in American poetry – sometimes called simply "Formalism"
           * Russian formalism, school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s
        * New Formalism (architecture), a mid-20th century architectural style, sometimes abbreviated to Formalism
  