Whatever Happened to Tradition?
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The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from
one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best
days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we
can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of
tradition - political, social and religious.We ignore our past at
our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western
tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old
ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even,
of who we really are. In this wide-ranging book, we see how
tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of
Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan.Some of the
concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West:
authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual
transcendence. We'll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead
relatives and invite them to tea. Stanley illustrates how
apparently eccentric yet universal principles can nurture the
individual from birth to death, plugging them into the wider
community, and creating a bond between generations.He also
demonstrates that tradition, far from being pretentious or rigid,
survives through clever adaptation, that it can be surprisingly
egalitarian. The good news, he argues, is that it can also be
rebuilt. It's been done before.The process is fraught with danger,
but the ultimate prize of rediscovering tradition is self-knowledge
and freedom.
Výber kníh autorov
Bloomsbury Continuum ,
Tim Stanley
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Bloomsbury Continuum,
Tim Stanley
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Slovart
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