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

This antiquarianism also existed in Japan, before the introduction of the European civilization, but here it had lacked much of its intensity, through its non-originality.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)