antiquarianism

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While the contextualist approach makes possible this detailed and rich type of understanding, there is a danger that contextualist historians might fall into the trap of antiquarianism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Part of the problem with such exercises in antiquarianism and originalist literalism is that they miss the larger point about trying to translate 18th century legal principles and practices into modern terms.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2021

Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

Seb’s fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2016

They will find, if they look into his work closely, as much antiquarianism as they do geography, and no more.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John