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1. A Secular Age by Charles Taylor | |
Hardcover: 896
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(2007-09-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean--of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others. Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion--although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined--but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations. What this means for the world--including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence--is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless. Customer Reviews (23)
Connecting the dots between secularity and religion
A Literary Jungle
perfect
A secular age
Secularism and its Discontents |
2. Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet) by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 232
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(2004-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Retelling the history of Western modernity, Taylor traces the development of a distinct social imaginary. Animated by the idea of a moral order based on the mutual benefit of equal participants, the Western social imaginary is characterized by three key cultural forms—the economy, the public sphere, and self-governance. Taylor’s account of these cultural formations provides a fresh perspective on how to read the specifics of Western modernity: how we came to imagine society primarily as an economy for exchanging goods and services to promote mutual prosperity, how we began to imagine the public sphere as a metaphorical place for deliberation and discussion among strangers on issues of mutual concern, and how we invented the idea of a self-governing people capable of secular “founding” acts without recourse to transcendent principles. Accessible in length and style, Modern Social Imaginaries offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world. Customer Reviews (6)
Concise but sometimes confusing
Excellent dissection of the ideology of modernity
How we imagine who we are
Lucid Brilliance
Brilliant - though often confusing. |
3. Hegel by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 596
Pages
(1977-05-27)
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Excellent Commentary
Making the case for Hegel Since Hegel's practically the definition of "pseudo-philosophy" in the English-speaking world, it's fascinating to read this treatment by a sensible English (?) philosopher.Taylor does a great job in the 1st chapter setting up Hegel's problematic, with a survey of German romanticism and its issues.Those issues are in large part still with us today, so that Hegel's working on problems that should be of interest to us. But are those problems solvable?Can we take seriously someone who argues that "the rational is real, and the real is rational"?Taylor's carefully developing and qualifying Hegel's claims of universal rationality and trying to see his case for them. Even if you hate Hegel, or think you do, the great anti-Hegelian Bertrand Russell said that the 1st step to evaluating a philosophy is to engage with it as sympathetically as possible (in a bit of a Hegelian moment himself as I recall:sympathy-antipathy-evaluation).This book may be your best shot in English. Nietzsche argued that (1) the world is meaningless and "irrational," and that (2) humans cannot accept (1).If he's right, then something like Hegel's system may be the necessary consequence. ... Read more |
4. Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and Language (Philosophical Papers, Vol 1) (v. 1) by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 304
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(1985-05-31)
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5. Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 175
Pages
(1994-08-22)
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Remains a seminal work on the issues surrounding multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
Academic professionalism
A timely debate, with an emphasis on the philosophical.
A sophisticated philosophical defense ofmulticulturalism |
6. Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor by Ian Fraser | |
Paperback: 205
Pages
(2007-05-01)
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7. Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture) by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 142
Pages
(2003-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place. Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means. Customer Reviews (4)
Not much of a stylist
Charles Taylor and William James
Varieties of Reading Experience
A reflection on religious belief and the state Taylor's first task is to situate James within his own religious context.James inherited the strand of religious belief that was quintessentially Protestant -- with an emphasis on private feeling as against public expression.For James, the ultimate religious experience is private and fundamentally individual.This precludes James from fully grasping the types of religious expression that are more communally-based. Taylor's second task is to reflect on James personal struggle with the question of belief and unbelief.In James' day a strong argument was being made that religious belief is intellectually dishonest.Taylor offers a good summary of James' defense of belief as a viable choice. Finally, Taylor integrates James' thought with the question of how our religious belief interacts with our political structures.Taylor offers an invaluable historical narrative of the variety of relationships between religion and state that we have seen in the past.In doing so, he makes our current dilemmas much clearer.We are moving from a country that has a broad consensus in some sort of belief, but which allows individuals to join whatever church best gives expression to that experience, to a country in which there is no such broad consensus.If there is no shared understanding of the sacred, we are forced to ground our political structures in the purely human.It is not yet clear whether the new project will succeed, but in his reflections on the tensions between belief and unbelief and their relationship to our political organization, Taylor can only enhance our discussions as we move forward into this virgin territory. Taylor's book does presume that the reader has a fairly sophisticated historical sense.And he often makes reference to the situation in France, which can be a bit opaque to those who lack a basic familiarity with French culture.Indeed, he often quotes from French writers without offering a translation.Still, the book offers valuable insights, even to those without the background to fully grasp everything he writes. ... Read more |
8. The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor | |
Hardcover: 142
Pages
(1992-09-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. At the heart of the modern malaise, according to most accounts, is the notion of authenticity, of self-fulfillment, which seems to render ineffective the whole tradition of common values and social commitment. Though Taylor recognizes the dangers associated with modernity's drive toward self realization, he is not as quick as others to dismiss it. He calls for a freeze on cultural pessimism. In a discussion of ideas and ideologies from Friedrich Nietzsche to Gail Sheehy, from Allan Bloom to Michel Foucault, Taylor sorts out the good from the harmful in the modern cultivation of an authentic self. He sets forth the entire network of thought and morals that link our quest for self-creation with our impulse toward self-fashioning, and shows how such efforts must be conducted against an existing set of rules, or a gridwork of moral measurement. Seen against this network, our modern preoccupations with expression, rights, and the subjectivity of human thought reveal themselves as assets, not liabilities. By looking past simplistic, one-sided judgments of modern culture, by distinguishing the good and valuable from the socially and politically perilous, Taylor articulates the promise of our age. His bracing and provocative book gives voice to the challenge of modernity, and calls on all of us to answer it. Customer Reviews (7)
The Ethics Of Authenticity
Highly academic
Malaises and their mending
A Great Little Overview of Integral Ethics
An ethic whose time has come Taylor, a Canadian, observes the conservative-liberal debate in America from an outsider's position.He is able to distance himself from the rhetoric, vocabulary, and narrow categories of this debate.I found his insights well worth consideration. In essence, Taylor attempts to redefine the debate.His concerns are threefold.First, radical individualism has disavowed most moral absolutes, eroded the meaningfulness of life, and resulted in a centripetal self-orientation that denigrates relational connectiveness.Secondly, Taylor is concerned that modern thought has become dominated by a reason that finds the highest good in the economic maximizing of ends.This "instrumental reason" demeans others as mere means to an end, disregards important perspectives that are not integral to the cost/benefit equation, and creates a technological supremacy that may cost us our humanity.Thirdly, Taylor is concerned that institutions have embraced instrumental reason as supreme and creating a power-base that may stand in the way of reform. Most of this book deals exclusively with Taylor's thoughts on the first of these concerns.Conservatives will be upset that Taylor does not call for a return to older values and older worldviews.Instead, he accepts the modern emphasis on individualism and the corollaries of self-fulfillment and self-actualization.He parts with these liberal ideals by arguing that the centripetal self-focus can only find meaning outside of the self.Discovery of my originality and uniqueness is a dialogical process (with others, values, or deity) that demands an objective "horizon." Hence, my definition of Taylor's authenticity is the dialogical discovery of my "being."Others are not used to complete my project, but are collaborators and partners.Together we work to throw off the shackles of psychological, institutional, and familial pressures to conform.Freedom from these shackles is not license to abuse, but becomes ground to assume responsibility for self without excuse.Radical individualism escapes meaninglessness only in dialogic connectedness and assumption of personal responsibility. In my view, the ethics of authenticity are much needed.I hope this book finds many receptive readers. ... Read more |
9. Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays by Charles Taylor | |
Hardcover: 424
Pages
(2011-02-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one’s philosophy—and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by “reason alone”; the perils of moralism. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again. In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that further explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the persistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions of a narrow rationalism. |
10. Charles Taylor (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) | |
Paperback: 232
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(2004-01-26)
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11. Skilled Pastor the by Charles W. Taylor | |
Paperback: 164
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(1991-09-01)
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The Skilled Pastor
Reviewing the Skilled Pastor
Listen, Love, Christ
The Skillled Pastor
Counseling as the practice of theology |
12. Hegel and Modern Society (Modern European Philosophy) by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 196
Pages
(1979-04-30)
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N.B.: Dupicative of certain chapters of Taylor's "Hegel."
Accessibility without simplification |
13. Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Philosophical Papers, Vol 2) (v. 2) by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 352
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(1985-05-31)
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14. Philosophical Arguments by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 336
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(1997-03-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Charles Taylor is one of the most important English-language philosophers at work today; he is also unique in the philosophical community in applying his ideas on language and epistemology to social theory and political problems. In this book Taylor brings together some of his best essays, including "Overcoming Epistemology," "The Validity of Transcendental Argument," "Irreducibly Social Goods," and "The Politics of Recognition." As usual, his arguments are trenchant, straddling the length and breadth of contemporary philosophy and public discourse. The strongest theme running through the book is Taylor's critique of disengagement, instrumental reason, and atomism: that individual instances of knowledge, judgment, discourse, or action cannot be intelligible in abstraction from the outside world. By developing his arguments about the importance of "engaged agency," Taylor simultaneously addresses themes in philosophical debate and in a broader discourse of political theory and cultural studies. The thirteen essays in this collection reflect most of the concerns with which he has been involved throughout his career--language, ideas of the self, political participation, the nature of modernity. His intellectual range is extraordinary, as is his ability to clarify what is at stake in difficult philosophical disputes. Taylor's analyses of liberal democracy, welfare economics, and multiculturalism have real political significance, and his voice is distinctive and wise. |
15. Exploring Music: The Science and Technology of Tones and Tunes by Charles Taylor | |
Paperback: 255
Pages
(1992-01-01)
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Very Good overview of the science behind music |
16. Charles Taylors Vision of Modernity: Reconstructions and Interpretations by Christopher Garbowski | |
Hardcover: 230
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(2009-08-01)
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17. Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity (Key Contemporary Thinkers) by Nicholas H. Smith | |
Paperback: 296
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(2002-02-25)
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excellent clear introduction |
18. Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question | |
Paperback: 292
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(1995-01-27)
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19. Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition: An Essay by Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann | |
Hardcover: 112
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(1992-08)
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20. Frederick W. Taylor: The Father of Scientific Management : Myth and Reality by Charles D. Wrege, Ronald G. Greenwood | |
Hardcover: 320
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(1991-06)
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Cheaper by the dozens - a story of piece work |
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