Sources of the Self
The Making of the Modern Identity
$56.90
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
1 March 1992
Summary
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 led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He arg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674824263 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674824261 |
| Author: | Charles Taylor |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 1992 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
Undoubtedly one of the most significant works in moral philosophy and the history of ideas to appear in recent decades.
Taylor has taken on the most delicate and exacting of philosophical questions, the question of who we are and how we should live…and he has made this an adventure of self-discovery for his reader. To have accomplished so much is an important philosophical achievement. – Martha Nussbaum * New Republic *
Sources of the Self is in every sense a large book: in length and in the range of what it covers, but above all in the generosity and breadth of its sympathies and its interest in humanity…Few books on such large subjects are so engaging. – Bernard Williams * New York Review of Books *
A magnificent account, full, fair, well read, well written, complicated and high spirited—a credit, one might say, to the modern self that is capable of plumbing the depths of its own heritage in such a generous way. – Jeremy Waldron * Times Literary Supplement *
For sociologists, there is no more important philosopher writing in the world today than Charles Taylor. – Alan Wolfe * Contemporary Sociology *
Undoubtedly one of the most significant works in moral philosophy and the history of ideas to appear in recent decades. – Frances S. Adeney * Theology Today *
Surely one of the most important philosophical works of the last quarter of a century. – Jerome Bruner
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal, Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age, he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.
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