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
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
Attention to recreationist detail can bring about a sort of self-satisfied complacency in these shows and their viewers, dwelling in precious antiquarianism and mutually congratulating ourselves on our fact-checking.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2015
It endeavours to unite antiquarianism and abstract science.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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