Rethinking Traditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11050877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Gross (0000-0002-5400-8708, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 1992 |
| Issue | 94 |
| Pages | 5-10 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1293094005 |
| OpenAlex | W4239259047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
One of my main concerns in The Past in Ruins is the issue of tradition and how it ought to be dealt with today. My starting point is an obvious one: that we in the West now live so entirely within the framework of modernity that it is neither possible nor desirable to seek a return to pre-modernity. The triumph of what Baudelaire called la vie moderne has of course brought with it gains as well as losses, and certainly among the most notable of the losses has been the decline of tradition as a “value.” Rather than being judged valuable, tradition is today more likely to be thought of as a liability
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Liability · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · French Literature and Poetry · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |