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Dilemmas and Connections

Selected Essays

by Charles Taylor

  • Hardback
  • 424 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 15.5 x 23.5 x 3 cm

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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'; and, 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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Secular AgeDilemmas and Connections

  • Author

    Charles Taylor

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    February 2011

  • Weight

    774g

  • Page Count

    424

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.5 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674055322

  • ISBN-10

    0674055322

  • Eden Code

    3471114

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