Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern IdentityIn this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. |
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... society : the contrast between the moral majority of born - again evangelicals in the contemporary American West and South , on one hand , and their middle - class urban compatriots on the East Coast , on the other . In a way which we ...
... society , and the fierce competition for this kind of dignity is part of what animates democratic politics . These distinctions , which I have been calling frameworks , are thus woven in different ways into the three dimensions of our ...
... society of interlocutors . Who is this speaking ? we say over the phone . Or who is that ? pointing to some person across the room . The answer comes in the form of a name : ' I'm Joe Smith ' , often accompanied by a statement of ...
... society about what is the fashionable way to wear a bowler hat , flat or at a rakish angle , we would all agree that this whole issue might easily not have existed . It would have sufficed that no one have invented the bowler hat . On a ...
... society that it tends to breed a herd of conformist individuals . This is indeed a mockery of the pretensions of the ... societies in the West . The fact that both are elaborated in cultural traditions does nothing to lessen the ...
Contents
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41 | |
53 | |
Moral Sources PART II | 105 |
Inwardness | 109 |
Moral Topography | 111 |
Platos SelfMastery | 115 |
In Interiore Homine | 127 |
The Culture of Modernity | 285 |
Fractured Horizons | 305 |
Nature as Source | 355 |
The Expressivist Turn | 368 |
Our Victorian Contemporaries | 405 |
Visions of the PostRomantic | 419 |
Epiphanies of Modernism | 456 |
The Conflicts of Modernity | 495 |
Descartess Disengaged Reason | 143 |
Lockes Punctual Self | 159 |
Exploring lHumaine Condition | 177 |
Inner Nature | 185 |
A Digression on Historical Explanation | 199 |
PART III | 209 |
God Loveth Adverbs | 211 |
Rationalized Christianity | 234 |
Moral Sentiments | 248 |
The Providential Order | 269 |
3 | 539 |
25 | 541 |
53 | 551 |
91 | 568 |
III | 573 |
127 | 582 |
143 | 585 |
185 | 596 |
211 | 599 |