Tradition
Subtitle: concept and claim
By: Josef Pieper ; translated from the German by E. Christian Kopff.
Contributors: Kopff, E. Christian.
Series: Crosscurrents; Crosscurrents (Wilmington, Del.)
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9781933859545
Subjects: Tradition (Philosophy)
Work titles: Überlieferung.
Description: "Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality in the lives and languages of ordinary people. In the modern world of constant, unrelenting change, tradition, says Pieper, is that which must be preserved unchanged. Drawing on thinkers from Plato to Pascal, Pieper describes the key elements and figures in the act of tradition and what is distinctive about it."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in German as: Überlieferung : Begriff und Anspruch (Munich : Kösel, c1970).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-93) and index.