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Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition - Backing into the Future (Paperback)
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Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition - Backing into the Future (Paperback)
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The idea of tradition seems a timeless one, but our modern
understanding of the term was actually shaped by the Victorian
revival of tradition as a cornerstone of religion, art and culture.
Stephen Prickett traces how the word 'tradition' fell out of use in
English by the middle of the eighteenth century and how it returned
in the nineteenth having radically changed and gained in meaning.
Prickett analyses the work of authors who, like Burke, perhaps
unexpectedly, avoid use of the concept, as well as those who, like
Coleridge, Keble and Newman, who, variously influenced by German
Romantics, explored it in detail, and disagreed profoundly with
each other as to its implications. An important contribution to
literature, history and theology, this sweeping work shows how
people manufacture their own idea of truth, customs, or ancient
wisdom to make sense of the past in terms of a problematic present.
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