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02894aam a2200313 i 4500 001 FFC19CF0010B11EEB5B5CDCD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230602010835 008 210719t20212021enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1472974123 020 $a 9781472974129 035 $a (OCoLC)1276782671 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d BDX $d VP@ $d OCL $d OCLCO $d FIE $d JOZ $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d QGK $d SILO 050 4 $a B105 T7 S83 2021 100 1 $a Stanley, Tim, $e author. 245 10 $a Whatever happened to tradition? : $b history, belonging and the future of the West / $c Tim Stanley. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Continuum, $c 2021. 300 $a v, 266 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are. In this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We'll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea. Stanley illustrates how apparently eccentric yet universal principles can nurture the individual from birth to death, plugging them into the wider community, and creating a bond between generations. He also demonstrates that tradition, far from being pretentious or rigid, survives through clever adaptation, that it can be surprisingly egalitarian. The good news, he argues, is that it can also be rebuilt. It's been done before. The process is fraught with danger, but the ultimate prize of rediscovering tradition is self-knowledge and freedom."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Defining tradition -- The West's war on tradition -- The invention of tradition -- The uses of nostalgia -- Hurrah for the old -- Tradition and identity -- Tradition and order -- Tradition and freedom -- Tradition and equality -- Tradition and faith. 650 0 $a Tradition (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Manners and customs. 650 0 $a Civilization, Western. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781472974136 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907012435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FFC19CF0010B11EEB5B5CDCD2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search