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- noun A
tradition that goes against another tradition.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Herder's well-grounded hostility to this type of systematicity established an important countertradition in German philosophy (which subsequently included e.g. F. Schlegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein).
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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Africa in the mass media while also initiating a countertradition of ethnographic documentaries.
NewBlackMan 2010
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And if that worldview - he writes and draws stories inhabited by people, not heroes; where heroism is a matter of circumstance and action, and often occupational duty, but not character; where those who call themselves heroes are conmen or self-obsessed prats; where everything matters but little is serious enough to take seriously - flies in the face of comics tradition, it has lasted long enough and bled enough into comics to be a countertradition.
Comic Book Resources 2009
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