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

State University of New York Press (1985)
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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.

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1986

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