Author Andrea Cremer, who has a PhD in history, recently wrote about her foray into alternate history, "The allure of what if lay in its ability to reveal the very heart of history itself its ability to define national and cultural identities, instill concepts of tradition and heritage, foster loyalty, and nurture sentiment.
"That brought me headlong into the whole concept of tradition.
If not, do the comments I keep getting have more to do then with some concept of tradition?
Companies are intent on peddling a constant stream of new products and services but, perversely, the concept of tradition still drives the business.
Hence conservatism's structuring concept of tradition, and its deference to historical, non-state institutions, Burke's "little platoons" in civil society, including family, community and church.
Tradition is presented as a resource and a provocation for thinking and creativity: whereas sameness is the currency of a conservative conception of tradition, instability, questions and the challenge of otherness are the drivers of Gadamer's more dialogical concept of tradition.
We present here a critical review of the concept of Itaparica tradition, testing, beyond these typological similarities, its technological coherence.
Because of the gendered significance of the major concepts of the aesthetic tradition, feminist challenges often systematically deconstruct the concepts of art and aesthetic value reviewed above.
(This is sort of point is often made in phenomenological discussions by saying that "empathy" is required if we are to understand the defining concepts of a faith tradition: see Dupre 1998, pp. 36 37).
In time, new designs and motifs became part of the stylistic concepts and traditions of people to whom they had been introduced.
Some seemingly novel concepts are firmly rooted in centuries of tradition.
