Tuesday, 3 January 2012

History, tradition, and authority


“Insofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition, it possesses authority; insofar as authority presents itself historically, it becomes tradition.” - Hannah Arendt in the Introduction of Benjamin, W., 1968. Illuminations, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

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