Definition of "academicism" []

• Traditional formalism, especially when reflected in art. (noun)

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• "This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking and nowadays the errors of academicism do not stay in the academy; they make their way into the world and what begins as a failure of perception among intellectual specialists finds its fulfillment in policy and action."
• "The intellectual fiasco of the Sovietology “left,” who camouflaged their ideology with the robes of academicism, should not be forgotten."
• "Yet "On Becoming an Artist" begins not with modernism, but with high academicism."