Cosmic Connections by Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosmic orders depleted, artists groped to articulate new meanings by bringing connections to life rather than merely reasoning abstractly about life.
Taylor is a perceptive reader of his poets, and he offers a wonderful synthesis of how poets from the Romantics onward have sought to overcome the ‘disenchanted’ vision of reality…he calls our attention to a way of understanding the Romantic age that makes it appear lively, salient, and worthy of the reader’s contemplation-- James Matthew Wilson * National Review *
Taylor shows how…poetry…puts readers in contact with experiences of divine harmony, of supernatural order, of a joy which is the direct result of a situated haecceity, which is to say, of the thisness of poetic experience…[this book] dares to treat poetic language as a unique category of communication unto itself that is as distinct as it is elusive to the understanding. -- Matthew Hunter * Chronicle of Higher Education *
A return to form for Taylor…a worthy milestone in an extraordinary career. -- Stevan Veljkovic * European Journal of Social Theory *
Taylor shows how…poetry…puts readers in contact with experiences of divine harmony, of supernatural order, of a joy which is the direct result of a situated haecceity, which is to say, of the thisness of poetic experience…[this book] dares to treat poetic language as a unique category of communication unto itself that is as distinct as it is elusive to the understanding. -- Matthew Hunter * Chronicle of Higher Education *
A return to form for Taylor…a worthy milestone in an extraordinary career. -- Stevan Veljkovic * European Journal of Social Theory *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674296084 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674296087 |
| Title | Cosmic Connections |
| Author | Charles Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2024-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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