Dilemmas and connections : selected essays / Charles Taylor.
Taylor, Charles, 1931-
2011
B995 .T31 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Dilemmas and connections : selected essays / Charles Taylor.
Author Taylor, Charles, 1931-
ISBN 9780674055322 (alk. paper)
0674055322 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 414 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number B995 .T31 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 191
Summary There are always more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one's philosophy--and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by "reason alone"; the perils of moralism. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again. --
In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that further explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the persistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions of a narrow rationalism. --Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Iris Murdoch and moral philosophy
Understanding the other: a Gadamerian view on conceptual schemes
Language not mysterious?
Celan and the recovery of language
Nationalism and modernity
Conditions of an unforced consensus on human rights
Democratic exclusion (and its remedies?)
Religious mobilizations
Themes from a secular age
A Catholic modernity?
Notes on the sources of violence: perennial and modern
The future of the religious past
Disenchantment-re-enchantment
What does secularism mean?
Die blosse Vernunft ("reason alone")
Perils of moralism
What was the Axial revolution?

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