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Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies

Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies

Marshall, Donald G.
Bruns, Gerald L.
Cullen, Margaret

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0742541614
ISBN13: 9780742541610
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Aug 16 2005
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.68 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down to us from the past? Is the very idea of tradition still useful in the wake of historical ruptures, such as the Holocaust, changes in the canon, and the end of colonialism? Drawing on a wide range of philosophers and literary theorists, these thirteen essays examine the response and resistance to religious, cultural, and literary tradition by various American, English, German, and African writers. Contributors analyze suspicion of tradition in modernity and present more complex and nuanced accounts of tradition that demonstrate its legitimacy and necessity in the lives of individuals and communities. Tradition emerges from their accounts both as a critique of destructive aspects of modernity and as consistent with some of its central values.

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