Sources of the Self: Making of the Modern Identity (Cloth) - Hardcover

Taylor, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674824253 ISBN 13: 9780674824256

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Charles Taylor

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This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges give meaning to human life. Associating each ideology with a particular conception of our identity as selves, he defends the modern view, keeping in mind that self-realization must recognize that some things are important beyond the self. Taylor rambles somewhat and often talks about " the good," as though human beings were fungible in their capacities for appreciation and action; but the wealth of illustrative material and frequent insights are thought-provoking. For scholarly collections.
- Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674824253
• ISBN 13: 9780674824256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 601