TY - JOUR
TI - Considering tradition and its discourses: the polysemy of the problem
AU - Hańderek, Joanna
TI - Considering tradition and its discourses: the polysemy of the problem
AB - 
	The article will analyse the meaning and understanding of tradition. What I will attempt to accomplish, by reference to Rorty, Foucault, Appadurai, Geertz and postcolonial theorists, is to show that tradition is a unique type of construct. It is a construct dependent on history, conditions of temporality, understanding and needs of human being; social attitude and maturity. Such a view of tradition is understood as a composition of different ideas, which not only shape the participants of social life but which are shaped by them as well. 

	 

	This text will stress the importance of postmodern and poststructural meaning of tradition, as these schools of philosophical thought gave rise to deconstruction and the critical approach towards phenomena and categories, previously considered invariable. These two movements free the understanding of tradition from previous constraints, showing that it is just another narration of cultural understanding of reality. A proposition is thus made to consider studying tradition through understanding how it is formed and how it affects the present.

	 

	I will try to show  how a changing tradition allows the human being to adapt him/herself to his

	/her everydayness, not only providing a possibility of cultural foundation but also allowing a dialogue with different types of cultural life.
VL - 2014
IS - Volume 15, Issue 1
PY - 2014
SN - 1896-8201
C1 - 2084-3976
SP - 1
EP - 17
DO - 10.4467/20843976ZK.14.001.2142
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-w-kulturze/article/wobec-tradycji-i-jej-dyskursow-wieloznacznosc-problemu
KW - tradition
KW - heritage
KW - construct
KW - transmission
KW - culture
KW - identity