Books

A Secular Age

– Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
From Amazon.com: 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… More

Modern Social Imaginaries

– Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
From Google Books: 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,… More

Multiculturalism : Examining the Politics of Recognition

– Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism : Examining the Politics of Recognition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
From Princeton University Press: 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… More

The Ethics of Authenticity

– Taylor, Charles. The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.
From Harvard University Press: 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… More

The Malaise of Modernity

– Taylor, Charles. The Malaise of Modernity, Concord, Ont. : Anansi. 1991.
From Amazon.com: 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… More

Sources of the Self : the Making of the Modern Identity

– Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self : the Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
From Amazon.com: In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has… More

Philosophy and the Human Sciences

– Taylor, Charles. Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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… More

Human Agency and Language

– Taylor, Charles. Human Agency and Language. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
From Amazon.com: 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… More

Hegel and Modern Society

– Taylor, Charles. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
From Google Books: Introduction to Hegel’s thought for the student and general reader, emphasizing in particular his social and political thought and his continuing relevance to contemporary problems.

Hegel

– Taylor, Charles. Hegel. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975.
From Amazon.com: This is 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… More

Commentary

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Canadian idealism and the philosophy of freedom : C.B. Macpherson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor

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… More

Selfhood and sacrifice : Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the crisis of modernity

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… More

What Secular Age?

– 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… More

Meaning and authenticity : Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the drama of authentic human existence

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… More

Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor

– 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… More

Charles Taylor : meaning, morals, and modernity

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… More

Charles Taylor: Thinking and Living Deep Diversity

– 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… More

Authenticity, Justice, and Virtue in Taylor and Rousseau

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… More

Charles Taylor

– Abbey, Ruth. Charles TaylorPrinceton : 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… More

Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit: Essays on Contemporary Theory

– 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… More

Essays

How to Define Secularism

– Taylor, Charles. "How to Define Secularism." In Boundaries of Toleration, edited by Charles Taylor and Alfred C. Stepan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 59-78

Forward

– Taylor, Charles. "Forward." In Wittgenstein's Later Theory of Meaning : Imagination and Calculationby Hans Schneider. Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Retrieving Realism

– Taylor, Charles. "Retrieving Realism." In Mind, Reason, and being-in-the-World : The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate, edited by Joseph K. Schear. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2013. 61-90

The Space of Exchange

– Taylor, Charles. "The Space of Exchange." In Radical Responsibilty : Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, edited by Michael J. Harris, Daniel Rynhold, and Tamra Wright. Jerusalem: Maggid Books, 2013.

Reason, Faith, and Meaning

– Taylor, Charles. "Reason, Faith, and Meaning." In Faith, Rationality, and the Passions, edited by Sarah Coakley. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 13-27.

Overcoming Modern Epistemology

– Taylor, Charles. "Overcoming Modern Epistemology." In Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Fergus Kerr, OP. London: T & T Clark, 2012

The Church Speaks – to Whom?

– Taylor, Charles. "The Church Speaks - to Whom?" In Church and People: Disjunctions in a Secular Age, edited by Charles Taylor, José Casanova and George F. McLean, vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2012. 17-24.

Why we Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism

– Taylor, Charles. "Why we Need a Radical Redefinition of Secularism." In the Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, edited by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011

What was the Axial Revolution?

– Taylor, Charles. "What was the Axial Revolution?" In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 367-379

What does Secularism Mean?

– Taylor, Charles. "What does Secularism Mean?" In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 303-325.

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