http://shires.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/traditionalism/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:45:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://shires.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/traditionalism/#comment-2 Reynard Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:27:22 +0000 http://shires.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-2 I agree that creating an ideology out of something as diverse and trnscendant as tradition is an eminently modern, distasteful and ultimately non-traditional exercise! This is one of the big problems I had with the New Right project. However, "traditionalism" is useful as a descriptive term for a posture of defence of traditional culture against the modern world. This in itself doesn't imply a definate agenda or any particular cohesion, although this can occur over time. In a traditional society there wouldn't be any need for "traditionalists" at all, of course... I agree that creating an ideology out of something as diverse and trnscendant as tradition is an eminently modern, distasteful and ultimately non-traditional exercise! This is one of the big problems I had with the New Right project. However, “traditionalism” is useful as a descriptive term for a posture of defence of traditional culture against the modern world. This in itself doesn’t imply a definate agenda or any particular cohesion, although this can occur over time. In a traditional society there wouldn’t be any need for “traditionalists” at all, of course…

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