– Meynell, Robert. Canadian idealism and the philosophy of freedom : C.B. Macpherson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor.
Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.
From McGill Queen’s University Press: Twentieth-century Canada fostered a range of great minds, but the country’s diversity and wide range of academic fields have led to their ideas being portrayed as the work of isolated thinkers. Canadian…
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– Andrew O'Shea, Andrew. Selfhood and sacrifice : Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the crisis of modernity. New York ; London : Continuum, 2010.
From Amazon.com : Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. O’Shea offers a novel interpretation of Girard’s work that opens up his discourse on violence and the sacred into a fruitful…
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– Miller, James. What Secular Age? International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 21, No. 1/4, Secular Imaginaries, Dec., 2008, pp. 5-10.From the article: After asserting that the title of Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age is misleading – since around the world religious communities of belief are still quite robust – this paper argues that the most important tension in…
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– Braman, Brian J. Meaning and authenticity : Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the drama of authentic human existence. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
From Amazon.com : The language of self-fulfillment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, ‘authenticity’) has become common in contemporary culture. The desire to be ‘authentic’ is implicitly a desire to shape one’s…
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– Fraser, Ian. Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor. Imprint Academic, 30 April 2007.From Amazon.com : Charles Taylor is a philosopher concerned with morality and the nature of the identity of individuals and groups in the modern West. Dr. Fraser offers a critical evaluation of Taylor’s conception of the self, and of its moral and…
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– Smith, Nicholas H. Charles Taylor : meaning, morals, and modernity. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2002.
From Amazon.com : This book provides a comprehensive, critical account of Taylor’s work. It succinctly reconstructs the ambitious philosophical project that unifies Taylor’s diverse writings. And it examines in detail Taylor’s specific…
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– Redhead, Mark. Charles Taylor. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. 2002.From Amazon.com : Over the past four decades, Charles Taylor’s work as an intellectual historian, epistemologist, and normative political theorist has made him a leading figure in contemporary social philosophy. In Charles Taylor: Thinking and Living…
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– Reisert, Joseph R. Polity, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 305-330
From the article: “Can a society embrace authenticity without becoming more unjust? It seems not, but Charles Taylor has argued that, once the dialogical nature of human sub- jectivity is recognized, it follows that these two, seemingly opposed, ideals…
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– Abbey, Ruth. Charles Taylor. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2000.From Amazon.com: Charles Taylor (b. 1931) is one of the most influential and prolific philosophers in the English-speaking world. His unusually broad interests range from artificial intelligence to theories of meaning, from German idealism to contemporary…
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– Beiner, Ronald. Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit: Essays on Contemporary Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.From Amazon.com: In the last two centuries, our world would have been a safer place if philosophers such as Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche had not given intellectual encouragement to the radical ideologies of Jacobins, Stalinists, and fascists. Maybe the world…
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– Tully, James. Philosophy in the Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 27, 1995.
From Amazon.com : This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor’s work and a major contribution to the leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most…
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