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Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing Into the Future

Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing Into the Future

Prickett, Stephen

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ISBN10: 052151746X
ISBN13: 9780521517461
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29 2009
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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