QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Likewise the appropriation of cultural tradition becomes more dependent upon the creative hermeneutic of contemporary interpreters. Tradition in the modern world loses its legitimacy of simply being valid because it is the way of the past. The legitimacy of tradition rests now with resourceful and creative appropriations of it in view of the problems of meaning in the present."

--Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self

You know, this somehow reminds me of Hegel. I'm not saying that Hegel is necessarily wrong. I think that this woman is very, very clever.