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Charles Margrave Taylor CC GOQ FRSC FBA (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history.
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]
The Politics of Recognition" is a 1992 essay by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, based on the inaugural lecture he delivered at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. [1] The essay discusses political currents that seek recognition for particular identity groups. [2]
Charles Taylor most often refers to: Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) (born 1948), warlord and president of Liberia Charles Taylor (philosopher) (born 1931), Canadian philosopher and social theorist
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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]
Subsequent thinkers have extended Sartre's ideas into the realms of philosophy and sociology. For John Thompson , the social imaginary is "the creative and symbolic dimension of the social world, the dimension through which human beings create their ways of living together and their ways of representing their collective life".