Where the Past Was, There History Shall Be
As the proverb has it, ‘tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame’. Taking this image as a starting point, this paper is interested in non-conservative concepts of tradition and (dis)continuity. If the concept of tradition is normally associated with continuity, the concept of tradition poses the question of transmittability. Is there a continuous medium in which narrations, customs, rites or other material practices can be handed down from the past to the present? If the transmittability of tradition is not a given, a commodified object, but subject to historical change,... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Schlagwörter: | Benjamin Walter / Marx Karl / Luxemburg Rosa / Freud Sigmund / historiography / philosophy / psychoanalysis |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27524861 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://am.revues.org/789 |