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

A recurrent theme is Dirda’s love of the dustier byways of antiquarianism and of the hours spent in used-book stores in pursuit of a rare find.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

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