Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays - Rilegato

Taylor, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0674055322 ISBN 13: 9780674055322

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2011

Riassunto

There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one’s philosophy—and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by “reason alone”; the perils of moralism. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again.

In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that further explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the persistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions of a narrow rationalism.

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L'autore:

Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and 2008 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, given by the Inamori Foundation. He is the author of many books, including A Secular Age and Sources of the Self.

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Selected Essays

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674055322
• ISBN 13: 9780674055322
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 414