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

by Donald G. Marshall

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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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.
The Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies and The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern SelfThe Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies

  • Author

    Donald G. Marshall

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

  • Published

    August 2005

  • Weight

    582g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780742541610

  • ISBN-10

    0742541614

  • Eden Code

    5229642

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