Introduction

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Radical thought has always been ambivalent toward traditions. On the one hand, it could not avoid confronting them as inextricably embroiled in the legitimation of the status quo and, therefore, necessarily conservative. On the other, to be really radical, i.e., to go back to the roots, presupposed a need to regain a grounding presumably lost in a corrupt present. Whether it was a matter of digging up hidden roots or cutting off dead institutional branches the effort was contingent on the particular historical context. If traditions become so tied to entrenched corporatist interests as to prevent, e.g., the development of the free flow of goods and services under the pretense of “saving jobs”.

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