Tradition

Name: Tradition
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ISBN: 9780226753263

ISBN-10: 0226753263

ISBN-13: 9780226753263

Edition: 1981

Authors: Edward Shils

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Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and defiance does tradition actually move forward. Revealing the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship, Tradition remains the definitive work on this vital element of our society. "Shils is a man of fabled learning, whose mind purrs…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Edward Shils (1910-1995) was distinguished service professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His books include Tradition, The Intellectuals and the Powers, and Toward a General Theory of Action.