The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition

George Allan‏

נוב׳ 1985 · State University of New York Press

מידע על הספר הדיגיטלי הזה

This book examines tradition, the authority of the past, by tracing the process through which emotion and imagination transform everyday experience into an awareness of one's dependence on the work of predecessors. The King Arthur legend serves as a case study, outlining how this authority of tradition creates and sustains meaningful structures of social order.

על המחבר

George Allan is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.