Charles Taylor

Modern Social Imaginaries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world

Produktdetails

• Public Planet Books
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• 3rd printing.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332930
• ISBN-10: 0822332930
• Artikelnr.: 13649906

Autorenporträt

Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited; Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; The Ethics of Authenticity; Hegel; and the essay “The Politics of Recognition,” which appeared in Multiculturalism (edited by Amy Gutmann).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 The Modern Moral Order 3
2 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 23
3 the Specter of idealism 31
4 The Great Disembedding 49
5 The Economy as Objectified Reality 69
6 The Public Sphere 83
7 Public and Private 101
8 The Sovereign People 109
9 An All-Pervasive Order 143
10 The Direct-Access Society 155
11 Agency and Objectification 163
12 Modes of Narration 175
13 The Meaning of Secularity 185
14 Provincializing Europe 195
Notes 197