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| Tradition: The term tradition refers to customs, habits, beliefs, rituals or practices that are passed down from generation to generation. They form the cultural heritage of a community, a family, a society or a scientific community and are often deeply rooted in the history and values of a group. See also culture, cultural tradition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Post-communist Countries on Tradition - Dictionary of Arguments
Krastev I 75 Tradition/post-communist countries/Krastev: Nationalist resistance to a generally acknowledged Imitation Imperative (>Imitation/Krastev) has a perverse unintended consequence, however. Tradition/past: By passionately invoking tradition as the antidote to imitation, East Europe populists are forced into regularly rewriting their national histories. In the days of the Cold War, when resisting Moscow’s demand that they copy the Soviet model, Central Europeans described their tradition as fundamentally liberal and European. It was just another current in the broad stream of Western civilization. Today, by contrast, they invoke ‘their tradition’ to justify their opposition to being incorporated against their will into the liberal West. This startling volte-face makes it clear that there really is no such thing as ‘their tradition’.(1) (cf. >Policiy of Hungary/Krastev)Every country, as suggested, has many pasts and many traditions, which are often at odds with one another. The rhetorical gambit of populists involves singling out the least benign and most intolerant strand in the past of, say, Hungary or Poland, and arbitrarily elevating it into ‘the’ authentic past that must be preserved from the corrosive influence of the West. 1. François Jullien, Il n’y a pas d’identité culturelle (Paris: L’Herne, 2018)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Post-communist Countries Krastev I Ivan Krastev Stephen Holmes The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29