> Connoisseurs call for the contemplation of complexity almost for its own sake or remind everyone that things are subtler than they seem. The attractive thing about this move is that it is always available to the person who wants to make it. Theory is founded on abstraction,
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> abstraction means throwing away detail for the sake of a bit of generality, and so things in the world are always “more complicated than that”—for any value of “that.” Connoisseurship gets its aesthetic bite from the easy insinuation that the person trying to simplify things
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> is a bit less sophisticated a thinker than the person pointing out that things are more complicated.
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All historians should read this. If there is a universal rhetorical move among historians, it is to critique someone else’s analysis by “complicating” it Good history is made as much by what is left out as it is by what is put in
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