There are very few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our understanding of action, language, and mind. He has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social sciences should be practiced, opposing an interpretive stance to dominant positivist methodologies. His powerful critiques of atomist versions of liberalism has redefined the agenda of political philosophers. He has, moreover, produced prodigious intellectual histories aiming to excavate the origins of the way in which we have construed the modern self, and of the complex intellectual and spiritual trajectories that have culminated in modern secularism. Despite the apparent diversity of his work, it is driven by a unified vision. Throughout his writings, Charles Taylor has sought to oppose reductive conceptions of the human and of human societies that were thought by empiricist and positivist thinkers from Hume to Skinner and beyond to lend rigour to the human sciences. In its place, Taylor has articulated a vision of humans as interpretive beings, who can be understood neither individually nor collectively without adverting to the fundamental goods and values through which they make sense of their lives. The contributors to this volume, all of them distinguished philosophers and social theorists in their own rights, offer critical assessments of the full range of Taylor's writings. Taken together, they provide the reader with an unrivalled perspective on the full extent of Charles Taylor's contribution to modern philosophy.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 191
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Essays collected in this volume were originally presented at a conference organized in Charles Taylor's honour on the occasion of his eightieth birthday Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0228001447 9780228002826
- LCCN
- B995.T3
- LCCN Item number
- I58 2020eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 348 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00241435 (OCoLC)1153397430 (CaOOCEL)456135
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- INTERPRETING MODERNITY 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction Charles Taylor: A Biographical Sketch 14
- PART ONE Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Language 30
- 1 To Follow a Rule: Lessons from Baby Logic 32
- 2 Charles Taylor’s Conception of Language and the Current Debate about Theory of Meaning 47
- 3 Taylor’s Engaged Pluralism 60
- PART TWO Religion and Modernity 74
- 4 State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship 76
- 5 Taylor, Rawls, and Secularism 93
- PART THREE Moral Agency and the Self I 104
- 6 What If Anything Is Wrong with Positive Liberty? The Struggles of Agency in a Non-Ideal World 106
- 7 What’s Right with Positive Liberty: Agency, Autonomy, and the Other 125
- PART FOUR The Interpretation of Modernity 136
- 8 Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos? German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity 138
- 9 Taylor, Fullness, and Vitality 149
- PART FIVE Moral Agency and the Self II 160
- 10 Self-Creation or Self-Discovery? 162
- 11 An Explicitative Conception of Moral Theory 171
- 12 Charles Taylor and Ethical Naturalism 193
- PART SIX Political Philosophy, Recognition, and Multiculturalism 206
- 13 Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age 208
- 14 Two Conceptions of Indian Secularism 218
- 15 Memory, Multiculturalism, and the Sources of Democratic Solidarity 239
- PART SEVEN Canadian Politics 256
- 16 Recognition in Its Place 258
- Conclusion A Conversation between Charles Taylor, Jacob T. Levy, Daniel M. Weinstock, and Jocelyn Maclure 276
- Notes 302
- Bibliography 332
- Contributors 348
- Index 354
