contextualist
Speech parts
1. contextualist - Noun
2. contextualist - Adjective
Meaning
contextualist (comparative more contextualist, superlative most contextualist)
Of, pertaining to, or supporting contextualism
contextualist (plural contextualists)
A proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context
Examples
Finkelman (1994), p. 215; Finkelman (2012) Alexander, 2010; Davis, 1999, p. 179 Francis D. Cogliano traces the development of competing emancipationist then revisionist and finally contextualist interpretations from the 1960s to the present.
The basic thesis of "embodied mind" is also traceable to the American contextualist or pragmatist tradition, notably John Dewey in such works as "Art As Experience."
This in turn led to a "contextualist" approach beginning in the late 1990s combining stylistic elements of the first two phases in an attempt to provide an architectural "middle ground" between the two vastly different styles.