Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor 9780228002826

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Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor
9780228002826

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Jacob Levy (editor)
Jocelyn Maclure (editor)
Daniel M. Weinstock (editor)

Table of contents :
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INTERPRETING MODERNITY
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction Charles Taylor: A Biographical Sketch
PART ONE Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Language
1 To Follow a Rule: Lessons from Baby Logic
2 Charles Taylor’s Conception of Language and the Current Debate about Theory of Meaning
3 Taylor’s Engaged Pluralism
PART TWO Religion and Modernity
4 State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship
5 Taylor, Rawls, and Secularism
PART THREE Moral Agency and the Self I
6 What If Anything Is Wrong with Positive Liberty? The Struggles of Agency in a Non-Ideal World
7 What’s Right with Positive Liberty: Agency, Autonomy, and the Other
PART FOUR The Interpretation of Modernity
8 Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos? German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity
9 Taylor, Fullness, and Vitality
PART FIVE Moral Agency and the Self II
10 Self-Creation or Self-Discovery?
11 An Explicitative Conception of Moral Theory
12 Charles Taylor and Ethical Naturalism
PART SIX Political Philosophy, Recognition, and Multiculturalism
13 Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age
14 Two Conceptions of Indian Secularism
15 Memory, Multiculturalism, and the Sources of Democratic Solidarity
PART SEVEN Canadian Politics
16 Recognition in Its Place
Conclusion A Conversation between Charles Taylor, Jacob T. Levy, Daniel M. Weinstock, and Jocelyn Maclure
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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