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A Secular Age is a book written by the philosopher Charles Taylor which was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah [1] has referred to A Secular Age as "one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime." [2]
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity [1] is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press. It is an attempt to articulate and to write a history of the "modern identity". [2]
Charles Margrave Taylor was born in Montreal, Quebec, on November 5, 1931, to a Roman Catholic Francophone mother and a Protestant Anglophone father by whom he was raised bilingually. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] His father, Walter Margrave Taylor, was a steel magnate originally from Toronto while his mother, Simone Marguerite Beaubien, was a dressmaker. [ 53 ]
In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society. The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized , bureaucratic , secularized Western society . [ 1 ]
Taylor's thorough account of secularity as a socio-historical condition, rather than the absence or diminished importance of religion, has been highly influential in subsequent philosophy of religion and sociology of religion, particularly as older sociological narratives about secularisation, desecularisation, and disenchantment have come ...
Disenchantment is an American adult animated television series starring Abbi Jacobson as Princess Bean, Eric André as Luci, and Nat Faxon as Elfo. The series' seasons are split into halves; the first season, consisting of twenty episodes, was released in two equal parts; the first ten episodes premiered on Netflix on August 17, 2018, and the second ten were released on September 20, 2019.
The Malaise of Modernity is a book by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor based on his 1991 Massey Lecture of the same title. [1] [2] Originally published by House of Anansi Press, it was republished by Harvard University Press with the title The Ethics of Authenticity. [3]
Based on the work of Taylor, the imaginary is understood as a category of understanding social praxis and the reasons designers give to make sense of these practices. Pavel Kunysz has also drawn from Castoriadis' understanding of social imaginary to study the roles of contemporary architectural practises in the transformation of social ...