David Gross - The past in ruins: tradition and the critique of modernity
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An examination of why some traditions have disappeared while others have survived
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 92-10935 ISBN 0-87023-821-3 Designed by Dorothy Thompson Griffin Typeset by Keystone Typesetting in Linotron Primer Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gross, David, 1940 The past in ruins : tradition and the critique of modernity / David Gross. p..cm.(Critical perspectives on modern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-821-3 (alk. paper) 1. Civilization, ModemPhilosophy. 2. Tradition (Philosophy) I. Title. II. Series. CB358.G76 1992 901dc20 92-10935 CIP
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I want to express my gratitude to Paul Breines, Will Johnston, Bill Martin, and Alan Megill for their careful reading of this book in manuscript form, and for their many helpful suggestions. I greatly appreciated the enthusiasm that Clark Dougan of the University of Massachusetts Press showed for this work from the beginning, and I am indebted to Carol Schoen for her skillful job of copyediting. But my sincerest thanks go, yet again, to Ruthanne, Stefan, and David for their unfailing patience and support. This book is for them.
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Introduction
Tradition has been central to human life for millennia. Its main function has been to provide the values, beliefs, and guidelines for conduct that have helped mold communities into organic wholes. It has also been the crucial force providing linkage from one generation to the next. Where animals have had instinct to bind them together, human beings have had tradition. From the very earliest tribal and communal beginnings down to the advent of the modern age, tradition has always been present as virtual second nature. Without it there would have been no effective social integration, nor any connecting tissue holding together, in Edmund Burke's words, "those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are [yet] to be born."1
It is also true that for at least as long as there have been written records there have been complaints that tradition has not been given due respect. Some of the most ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern texts indicate a concern that the "old ways" were not being sufficiently honored, or that ancestral values were not being treated with the piety they deserve.2 Charges like these continue to echo through the centuries, but one has to wait until relatively recent times to hear another, very different charge: that
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