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The Ethics of Authenticity was originally given as a series of lectures on Canadian Radio, and entitled 'The Malaise of Modernity', and Taylor's concerns are to make a critique of modernity, highlighting worrying trends in the development of individualism and what he terms 'instrumental reason' and the subsequent 'loss of freedom'. For all his criticisms, Taylor also wants to retrieve the ethical theme of authenticity, seen in terms of people being true to themselves, but with a restored sense of life being dialogic in character, and lived against the cultural framework of 'horizons of intelligibility'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for those coming to the study of Charles Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity (1991), Dialogic Life provides an introduction and guide to Taylor's thought and a commentary and review of the text. 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