Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor
Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds the affirmation of ordinary life, a value that has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth.
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 readerTo have accomplished so much is an important philosophical achievement. -- Martha Nussbaum * New Republic *
Sources of the Self is in every sense a large book: in length and in the range of what it covers, but above all in the generosity and breadth of its sympathies and its interest in humanity… Few books on such large subjects are so engaging. -- Bernard Williams * New York Review of Books *
A magnificent account, full, fair, well read, well written, complicated and high spirited—a credit, one might say, to the modern self that is capable of plumbing the depths of its own heritage in such a generous way. -- Jeremy Waldron * Times Literary Supplement *
For sociologists, there is no more important philosopher writing in the world today than Charles Taylor. -- Alan Wolfe * Contemporary Sociology *
Undoubtedly one of the most significant works in moral philosophy and the history of ideas to appear in recent decades. -- Frances S. Adeney * Theology Today *
Surely one of the most important philosophical works of the last quarter of a century. -- Jerome Bruner
Sources of the Self is in every sense a large book: in length and in the range of what it covers, but above all in the generosity and breadth of its sympathies and its interest in humanity… Few books on such large subjects are so engaging. -- Bernard Williams * New York Review of Books *
A magnificent account, full, fair, well read, well written, complicated and high spirited—a credit, one might say, to the modern self that is capable of plumbing the depths of its own heritage in such a generous way. -- Jeremy Waldron * Times Literary Supplement *
For sociologists, there is no more important philosopher writing in the world today than Charles Taylor. -- Alan Wolfe * Contemporary Sociology *
Undoubtedly one of the most significant works in moral philosophy and the history of ideas to appear in recent decades. -- Frances S. Adeney * Theology Today *
Surely one of the most important philosophical works of the last quarter of a century. -- Jerome Bruner
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 | 9780674824263 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674824261 |
| Title | Sources of the Self |
| Author | Charles Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1992-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
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