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The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition
出版V & R unipress, 2018
主題History / Europe / MedievalHistory / Europe / RenaissancePhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / History & Surveys / Renaissance
ISBN38471089649783847108962
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WeUAuAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Traditions thrive on the dialectic of repetition. Drawing their topoi from the well of memory, they are situated on the very border between the deliberate and the habitual. Yet how is it possible to influence traditions? The present collection of essays studies the ways in which traditions are employed in the service of symbolic politics. What are the burdens and impositions of traditions, when their topoi are consciously exploited in the service of ideological purposes? Are there certain limits to manipulation that lie in the very nature of the traditions in question, a nature which therefore defines them? The contributors give a host of answers, studying topoi in medieval and early modern Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective.