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Introduction

Inextricably embroiled with Enlightenment ideology, modernist thought has never been able to accommodate traditions, which it routinely dismisses as obstacles to progress—irrational residues to be trashed as soon as possible. Efforts to do away with traditions, however, have resulted in failure and frustration. When all was said and done, the French Revolution paved the way for Robespierre and Napoleon, the October Revolution resulted in Stalin and Brezhnev, and the New Left's main accomplishment turned out to be the training of an army of bureaucrats and second-rate academics. This should come as no surprise, since the Enlightenment, on closer examination, has...