The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.16

c5.16

What relevance can the foregoing considerations have for modernity? The first thing to note is that there hardly seems to be room for a conflict between tradition and modernity, for whatever room there is has already been taken up by the unresolved conflict of tradition itself. Modernity, then, would seem to find its predestined place within tradition's own essentially broken and contradictory framework.