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

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.

About the author

George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of many books, including The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition; The Realizations of the Future: An Inquiry into the Authority of Praxis; The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form; and Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon, all also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: George Allan
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.1985
• EAN: 9780887061165
• ISBN: 978-0-88706-116-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy (Har; SUNY Series in Philosophy (Har; Suny Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy