The force of tradition : response and resistance in literature, religion, and cultural studies / edited by Donald G. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Donald G., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tradition (Philosophy).

Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.

Physical Description:

vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]

Summary:

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? Suspicion of tradition as culturally narrow and oppressive is a persistent theme of modernity and has increased 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.

The essays in this volume offer analyses of religious, literary, and cultural traditions and both responses and resistance to them including works by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Josiah Royce, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jacques Derrida, Charlotte Bronte, Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edith Wharton, Chinua Achebe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Kuhn, Donald Davidson, antebellum African-American women preachers, and Christian and Jewish thinkers in the wake of the Holocaust, among others.

Contents:

The force of tradition / Donald G. Marshall

Tradition and the terror of history / Gerald L. Bruns

Charity militant / Joel Weinsheimer

"In the chorus of others" / Susan Felch

The role of the Kuhnian paradigm in tradition and originality / Genevieve Later

Walking vs. flying / Norman Lillegard

My own private New England / Michael Schnell

Holy fire / Margaret Cullen

ESTESE and Doblado / Daniel McVeigh

Jane Eyre and the tradition of self-assertion; or, Bronte's socialization of Schiller's "play aesthetic" / Michael Vander Weele

Tradition and liberation / William Slaymaker

Community, text, and tradition in the French lieutenant's woman / David Landrum

Storytellers and interpreters in Achebe / Alan Jacobs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0742541614

0742541622

OCLC:

58536659