Abstract

Can tradition be experienced? What is the possibility of experiencing tradition? The question is problematic in two aspects: firstly, because the possibility of experiencing is far from secured, and secondly, because the forms of speaking and thinking as formed by tradition seem superfluous in view of the transformation of knowledge into informational quantities. If traditions cannot be rendered, they are readily neglected, i.e. they are no longer mediated. The possibility of experience is problematic insofar as the everydayness of the contemporary man in his experiential confusion embraces very little, if anything at all, that can be rendered into experience. why is tradition worthy of mediation? The question whether forms of speaking and thinking, as formed through tradition, and which can overstep the modern specialization of knowledge, suggest an alternative, is falsely raised. Traditions are without legacy