@article {12915,
	title = {B{\'e}la Hamvas{\textquoteright}s Concept of Authentic Tradition in European Context},
	journal = {Filozofia},
	volume = {75},
	number = {1},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {28-39},
	type = {State},
	abstract = {A basic element of B{\'e}la Hamvas{\textquoteright}s philosophy of crisis is an experiment for the reconstruction of the authentic tradition. Hamvas{\textquoteright}s concept of tradition has significant parallelism with Karl Jaspers{\textquoteright} theory of axial age. This paper offers an analysis of the parallelism between Hamvas{\textquoteright}s ideas about the sacred books as fragments of the unwritten ancestral tradition of the humankind and Jaspers{\textquoteright} theory about the foundations of the unity of humankind in the works written in the axial age. Assmann{\textquoteright}s theory of cultural memory will be used in the present writing as a theoretical frame of this comparison. By the hypothesis of this paper, a common element in the topics of German and Hungarian thinkers is the transition of the cultural memory from the ritual to the textual coherence, clarified by Assmann{\textquoteright}s theory. In the last part of this paper it will be exemplified that Hamvas{\textquoteright}s endeavour for the canonisation of the unwritten ancestral tradition in written form by his commented edition of Confucius{\textquoteright} Lunyu.},
	keywords = {Ancestral tradition, Axial age, Canonisation, Cultural memory, Ritual coherence, Textual coherence},
	url = {https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0205212303.2020.75.1.3.pdf},
	author = {Mester, B{\'e}la}
}
