{"product_id":"whatever-happened-to-tradition-9781399404877","title":"Whatever Happened to Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition  political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We''ll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStanley illustrate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rich and reflective book, based on wide reading and personal experience. * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhatever Happened to Tradition? \u003c\/i\u003eis stuffed with marvellous vignettes… the reader is left feeling grateful for the abundance of knowledge and the ebullient conviction with which it is shared. -- Allison Pearson * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe writer he most resembles is Roger Scruton… Since Scruton died last year, there is a vacancy for a political philosopher who will defend the traditions of this nation with all his heart and all his considerable brain. I suspect we may have found his successor. -- Allison Pearson * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is brilliant. It's really radical in a way that all the other stuff that says it's radical is not. It really gives you an idea that there is something else outside this airless bubble of the self we are stuck in today. I find that kind of inspiring. -- Adam Curtis, filmmaker\u003cbr\u003eHe persuasively presents tradition as rooting us in the world and in society, and as subtly adaptable. -- Jane O’Grady * The Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eRoger Scruton’s death deprived public discourse of its most intelligent and cogent defender of tradition, but Tim Stanley’s \u003ci\u003eWhatever Happened to Tradition?\u003c\/i\u003e steps bravely into the breach. * Church Times *\u003cbr\u003eTim Stanley suggests in his engaging way that fidelity to the past determines future happiness — for our civilisation, not just our souls. -- Christopher Howse * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is warmly recommended...it is full of fascinating fact and anecdotes...it is such a refreshing challenge to the sad and lazy assumptions of our age. * faith.org.uk *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePART ONE\u003c\/b\u003e 1 Defining Tradition 2 The West’s War on Tradition 3 The Invention of Tradition 4 The Uses of Nostalgia  \u003cb\u003ePART TWO\u003c\/b\u003e 5 Hurrah for the Old 6 Tradition and Identity 7 Tradition and Order 8 Tradition and Freedom 9 Tradition and Equality 10 Tradition and Faith  Conclusion \u003ci\u003eNotes Acknowledgements Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407762366807,"sku":"9781399404877","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399404877.jpg?v=1730500445","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whatever-happened-to-tradition-9781399404877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}