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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Charles Taylor
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Description for Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Paperback. Num Pages: 613 pages. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 702.
“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.” —Martha Nussbaum, New Republic
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674824263
SKU
V9780674824263
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About 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.
Reviews for Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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 ... Read more
Martha Nussbaum
New Republic
Sources of the Self is in every sense a ... Read more