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Charles Taylor is a philosopher of broad reach and many talents, but his most striking talent is a gift for interpreting different traditions, cultures and philosophies to one another[This book is] full of good things. New York Times Book Review Everywhe
Was von den Verächtern der Gegenwartsgesellschaft als Dekadenz und Verfall begriffen wird, sehen die Verfechter dieser Gesellschaft als Fortschritt und Befreiung an. Beide Seiten sind nach Taylors Analyse im Irrtum.Ohne Schwächen und negative Seiten unser
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 accou
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Tablet Best Book of the Year Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award "One find
In Malaise of Modernity , Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in
The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology, it is a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism, a powerful explanatory approach in psy
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multic
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal , exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal , Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelatio
Charles Taylor is one of the finest thinkers we have. And by we I mean every striving, puzzled, intellectually alert person on the planetThe wisdom and learning on display is staggering. Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald There are, always, more things in h
Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continenta
We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human. John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both a
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and mod
Taylor has taken on the most delicate and exacting of philosophical questions, the question of who we are and how we should liveand he has made this an adventure of self-discovery for his reader. Martha Nussbaum, New Republic In this extensive inquiry int
A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellec
One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society. The Economist What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that wein the West, at leastlargely do. And cle