"Once this false opposition (between tradition and modernity) is set aside and the problem of tradition ceases to be defined as a resistance to modernity, tradition becomes again a means of raising essential questions about the ways in which we pass on the life of cultures - questions that necessarily include issues of authority as well as invention, practice as well as interpretation." Mark Salber Phillips, What is tradition when it is not 'invented'? A historiographical introduction. In Questions of Tradition, edited by MS Phillips and G Schochet.
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