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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… 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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… 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… 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… 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,… More

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… More

Essays

Socialism and Weltanschauung

– Taylor, Charles. "Socialism and Weltanschauung" The socialist idea : a reappraisal / edited by Leszek Kolakowski and Stuart Hampshire, 1974.

Philosophy and its history

– Taylor, Charles. "Philosophy and its history", Philosophy in history : essays on the historiography of philosophy / edited by Richard Rorty, J.B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner, 1984.

The person

– Taylor, Charles. The category of the person : Anthropology, philosophy, history / Edited by Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes, 1985.

Shared and divergent values

– Taylor, Charles. "Shared and divergent values" Options for a new Canada / edited by Ronald L. Watts and Douglas M. Brown, 1991.
   

Atomism

– Taylor, Charles. "Atomism", Communitarianism and individualism / edited by Shlomo Avineri and Avner de-Shalit, Oxord: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Explanation and practical reason

– Taylor, Charles. "Explanation and practical reason", The quality of life / edited by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, 1993.

The Politics of Recognition

– Taylor, Charles. "The Politics of Recognition" edited by Goldberg, Multiculturalism : a critical reader, 1995.  

Sharing identity space

– Taylor, Charles. Quebec-Canada : what is the path ahead? / edited by John E. Trent, Robert Young, 1997.  

Nationalism and modernity

– Taylor, Charles. "Nationalism and modernity" The state of the nation : Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism / edited by John A. Hall, 1998.

Living with Difference

– Taylor, Charles. "Living with Difference." In Debating Democracy's Discontent: Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy, edited by Anita L. Allen and Jr Regan Milton C. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 212-226.

Modes of Secularism

– Taylor, Charles. "Modes of Secularism." In Secularism and its Critics, edited by Rajeev Bhargava, 1998. 31-53.

A Response

– Taylor, Charles. "A Response." Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 15, no. 1 (Jan., 1998): 79-87.

Identification and subjectivity

– Taylor, Charles. "Identification and subjectivity" Political thought / edited by Michael Rosen and Jonathan Wolff ; with the assistance of Catriona McKinnon, 1999.

In defence of positive freedom

– Taylor, Charles. "In defence of positive freedom" Political thought / edited by Michael Rosen and Jonathan Wolff ; with the assistance of Catriona McKinnon, 1999.

A Catholic Modernity?

– Taylor, Charles. "A Catholic Modernity?" In A Catholic Modernity? Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, edited by James L. Heft. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 13-37.

Comment on Jürgen Habermas

– Taylor, Charles. "Comment on Jürgen Habermas' 'from Kant to Hegel and Back again'." European Journal of Philosophy 7, no. 2 (Aug., 1999): 158-163.

Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights

– Taylor, Charles. "Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights." In the East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, edited by Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 124-144.

Modernity and Difference

– Taylor, Charles. "Modernity and Difference." In without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall, edited by Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg and Angela McRobbie. New York and London: Verso, 2000.

What’s Wrong with Foundationalism?

– Taylor, Charles. "What's Wrong with Foundationalism?" In Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive

– Taylor, Charles. "Democracy, Inclusive and Exclusive." In Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self, edited by Richard MadsenUniversity of California Press, 2001.

How to be Diverse

– Taylor, Charles. "How to be Diverse." Times Literary Supplement 5116 (20 April, 2001): 4

Language and Society

– Taylor, Charles. "Language and Society." In Jürgen Habermas, edited by David Rasmussen and James C. Swindal. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2001.

Modernity and Identity

– Taylor, Charles. "Modernity and Identity." In Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science, edited by Joan W. Scott and Debra Keates. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Plurality of Goods

– Taylor, Charles. "Plurality of Goods." New York Review of Books (2001): 113-120.

The Sources of Violence, Perennial and Modern

– Taylor, Charles. "The Sources of Violence, Perennial and Modern." Presentation to Symposium on The Liberal and Democratic Concepts of Adversity and Violence. University of Warsaw. May, 2001

Closed World Structures

– Taylor, Charles. "Closed World Structures." In Religion After Metaphysics, edited by Mark Wrathall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 47-48.

Ethics and Ontology

– Taylor, Charles. "Ethics and Ontology." The Journal of Philosophy 100, no. 6 (Jun., 2003): 305-320.

Response to Bhabha

– Taylor, Charles. "Response to Bhabha." In Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999, edited by Matthew J. Gibney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 184-188.

Rorty and Philosophy

– Taylor, Charles. "Rorty and Philosophy." In Richard Rorty, edited by Charles Guignon and David R. Hiley. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 2003. 158-179.

Notes on the Sources of Violence: Perennial and Modern

– Taylor, Charles. "Notes on the Sources of Violence: Perennial and Modern." In Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, edited by James L. Helf. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. 15-42.

A Place for Transcendence?

– Taylor, Charles. "A Place for Transcendence?" In Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond, edited by Regina M. Schwartz. New York: Routledge, 2004.

What is Pragmatism?

– Taylor, Charles. "What is Pragmatism?" In Pragmatism, Critique, Judgement: Essays for Richard J Bernstein, edited by Seyla Benhabib and N. Fraser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 73-92.

Merleau-Ponty and the Epistemological Picture

– Taylor, Charles. "Merleau-Ponty and the Epistemological Picture." In The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, edited by Taylor Carman and Mark Hansen. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2005. 26-49.

Benedict XVI

– Taylor, Charles. "Benedict XVI." Public Culture 18, no. 1 (2006): 11-14.

Religion and European Integration

– Taylor, Charles. "Religion and European Integration." In Religion in the New Europe: Conditions of European Solidarity, edited by Krzysztof MichalskiCentral European University Press, 2006. 1-22.

Religion and Modern Identity Struggles

– Taylor, Charles. "Religion and Modern Identity Struggles." In Islam in Public: Turkey, Iran and Europe, edited by Nilüfer Göle and Ludwig Amman. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2006. 481-524.

Religious Mobilizations

– Taylor, Charles. "Religious Mobilizations." Public Culture 18, no. 2 (2006): 281-300.

Three Malaises

– Taylor, Charles. "Three Malaises." In in the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, edited by Andrew D. Irvine and John S. Russell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

A Different Kind of Courage

– Taylor, Charles. "A Different Kind of Courage." The New York Review of Books 54, no. 7 (April 26, 2007).

Heidegger on Language

– Taylor, Charles. "Heidegger on Language." In A Companion to Heidegger, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 433-455.

Modern Moral Rationalism

– Taylor, Charles. "Modern Moral Rationalism." In Weakening Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, edited by Santiago ZabalaMcGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. 58-76.

On Social Imaginaries

– Taylor, Charles. "On Social Imaginaries." In Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge, edited by Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Outside the Box

– Taylor, Charles. "Outside the Box." Forbes Magazine (March 14, 2007)

What is Secularity?

– Taylor, Charles. "What is Secularity?" In Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology: Reason, Meaning, and Experience, edited by Kevin Vanhoozer and Martin Warner. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 97-130.

What Drove Me to Philosophy

– Taylor, Charles. "What Drove Me to Philosophy: The 2008 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture: Arts and Philosophy." Inamori Foundation, 2008.

What is Secularism?

– Taylor, Charles. "What is Secularism?" Forward. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship / [ed. by] Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

The Polysemy of the Secular

– Taylor, Charles. "The Polysemy of the Secular." Social Research 76, no. 4, The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case (Winter, 2009): 1143-1166.

Reply

– Taylor, Charles. "Reply." Thesis Eleven 99, no. 1 (November 01, 2009): 93-104.

Language Not Mysterious?

– Taylor, Charles. "Language Not Mysterious?" In Reading Brandom: On Making it Explicit, edited by Bernhard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer. London: Routledge, 2010. 32-47.

Apologia Pro Libro Suo

– Taylor, Charles. "Apologia Pro Libro Suo." In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, edited by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Reply to Schweiker Et Al

– Taylor, Charles. "Reply to Schweiker Et Al." The Journal of Religion 90, no. 3 (July, 2010): 401-406. In English

Celan and the Recovery of Language

– Taylor, Charles. "Celan and the Recovery of Language." In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 56-77.

Dialogue

– Taylor, Charles and Habermas, Jürgen. "Dialogue." In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, edited by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, 2011

Disenchantment- Reenchantment

– Taylor, Charles."Disenchantment- Reenchantment." In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 287-302.

The Future of the Religious Past

– Taylor, Charles. "The Future of the Religious Past." In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 214-286.

Iris Murdoch and Moral Philosophy

– Taylor, Charles. "Iris Murdoch and Moral Philosophy." In Dilemmas and Connections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 3-23

Magisterial Authority

– Taylor, Charles. "Magisterial Authority." In The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity, edited by Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley, 2011

Recovering the Sacred

– Taylor, Charles. "Recovering the Sacred." Inquiry 54, no. 2 (04, 2011): 113-125

Response

– Taylor, Charles. "Response." The Australian Journal of Anthropology 22, no. 1 (04, 2011): 125-133

Western Secularity

– Taylor, Charles. "Western Secularity." In Rethinking Secularism, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. Oxford: Oxford Univ Pr, 2011. 31-53

What does Secularism Mean?

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

What was the Axial Revolution?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Forward

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

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

Commentary

Philosophy in the Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question

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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… 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… 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… More

Authenticity, Justice, and Virtue in Taylor and Rousseau

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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-… 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… More

Charles Taylor : meaning, morals, and modernity

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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… 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… 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… More

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