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The Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies
By (author) Donald G. Marshall, Contributions by Gerald L. Bruns, Contributions by Margaret Cullen, Contributions by Susan Felch, Contributions by Alan Jacobs, Contributions by David Landrum, Contributions by Genevieve Later, Contributions by Norman Lillegard, Contributions by Daniel McVeigh, Contributions by Michael Schnell
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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? The concept of tradition has gained renewed importance in recent cultural studies. Suspicion of tradition as culturally narrow and oppressive is a persistent theme of modernity and has increased lately with the resurgence of religious traditionalism around the globe. At the same time, various groups demanding recognition for their distinctive cultural identity have reclaimed their traditions. Philosophers from Josiah Royce and Hans-Georg Gadamer to Alasdair MacIntyre have explored the relations between tradition and themes such as freedom, community, self-assertion, originality, and the shared values and interpretations that constitute everyday life. The essays in this volume offer varying, even disparate analyses of religious, literary, and cultural traditions and both responses and resistance to them in a variety of philosophers, novelists, and theologians. They examine works by Gadamer, Royce, MacIntyre, Plato, Jacques Derrida, Charlotte Bronte, S'ren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edith Wharton, Chinua Achebe, John Fowles, Heinrich Bsll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cotton Mather, Thomas Kuhn, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donald Davidson, Antebellum African-American women preachers, and Christian and Jewish thinkers in the wake of the Holocaust.
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published date | 16 Aug 2005
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 280
Dimensions | 236 x 158 x 27mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 558g
ISBN | 978-0-7425-4161-0
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