Description
Product ID: | 9781472974129 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Whatever Happened to Tradition? |
Subtitle: | History, Belonging and the Future of the West |
Authors: | Author: Tim Stanley |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Society and culture: general, Sociology, Social and cultural anthropology, Political science and theory, Society & culture: general, Sociology: customs & traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political science & theory |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This hard-hitting book from a rising star of political journalism explains why the West needs to embrace the conservative traditions that have been left behind in a senseless race toward "progress." 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. |
Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-10-14 |