Tradition / Edward Shils.

By: Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1981Description: viii, 334 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226753255Subject(s): Tradition (Philosophy) | Progress | History -- Philosophy | Civilization -- Philosophy | Social changeDDC classification: 306/.4 LOC classification: B105.T7 | S5

Contents:

In the grip of the past -- The endurance of past objects -- The endurance of past practices.

Summary: Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the anti traditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and defiance does tradition actually move forward. Revealing the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship, Tradition remains the definitive work on this vital element of our society.--provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the grip of the past -- The endurance of past objects -- The endurance of past practices.

Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the anti traditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and defiance does tradition actually move forward. Revealing the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship, Tradition remains the definitive work on this vital element of our society.--provided by publisher.

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