TRADITION AND INNOVATION
Abstract
Conceiving tradition and innovation as a continuum in constant and creative interaction upholds that every innovation offers a new dimension of the same reality. The issues of ‘honour killing’ endorsed by Khap panchayats, films, and publications that gives rise to the fundamentalist anger, an appeal is made to tradition as an effective tool to resist any change in the status quo. Analyzing innovation from a phenomenological perspective, a better implementation is proposed through the exogenous and endogenous factors as outlined by Edward Shils. In the ‘flat’ globalized world, realizing the futility of protectionism and the need to embrace phenomenological approach to tradition and innovation, it is affirmed that freshness and progress can be brought back into human life through their proper integration.
Babu Joseph Karakombil, “Tradition and Innovation” in Tradition and Innovation: Philosophy of Rootedness and Openness, ed. Saju Chackalackal, 57-64, Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2011.
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