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
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
History becomes mere antiquarianism, if the philosopher is not at hand to build its parts into the general history of humanity.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
