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 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… 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
Philosophy in the Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question
–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… More