1. Overcoming Epistemology 2. The Validity of Transcendental Arguments 3. Explanation and Practical Reason 4. Lichtung or Lebensform: Parallels between Heidegger and Wittgenstein 5. The Importance of Herder 6. Heidegger, Language, and Ecology 7. Irreducibly Social Goods 8. Comparison, History, Truth 9. To Follow a Rule 10. Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate 11. Invoking Civil Society 12. The Politics of Recognition 13. Liberal Politics and the Public Sphere Notes Credits Index
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal, Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age, he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.
Among the leading philosophers of our time, Charles Taylor stands
out for the sheer breadth of his interests and
influence...Illuminating and rewarding.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The book is really a showcase for Taylor's wide-ranging interests,
which include not only such mainstream philosophical concerns as
the nature and validity of reason but topical issues such as
ecology, welfare, social justice, and cultural diversity, among
others. In all of these, Taylor brings his fine philosophical
sensibility to bear, adapting insights from Hegel, Herder,
Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and contemporary philosophers.
*Library Journal*
[This] book is structured by a tightly knit agenda, one in which
the form and function of philosophical reasoning itself are at
stake. This is not just a collection of philosophical arguments. It
is a series of medications about the ability of reason to carry out
tasks assigned to it since the beginnings of Western
philosophy.
*Philosophy and Social Criticism*
This is a splendid book, perhaps Charles Taylor's best so far, and
that is high praise...[T]his is an instructively organized and
coherent book. Three introductory essays advance theses about
philosophical enquiry; then follow three that pursue enquiry thus
defined into the nature of language and its place in human life;
the next three draw on the findings of that enquiry in order to
characterize key aspects of social activity and relationships; and
the final four essays bring that characterization to bear upon
issues of political philosophy.
*Philosophical Quarterly*
Taylor is a highly distinctive thinker...a figure of very broad
intellectual (and indeed emotional and political) sympathies and
interests.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
A deeply engaging collection...[Taylor] combines a practical
interest in current political topics...with a continuing quest for
the deepest meanings of language, knowledge, and human beings.
*Toronto Globe and Mail*
Among the leading philosophers of our time, Charles Taylor stands
out for the sheer breadth of his interests and
influence...Illuminating and rewarding. -- David Miller * Times
Literary Supplement *
The book is really a showcase for Taylor's wide-ranging interests,
which include not only such mainstream philosophical concerns as
the nature and validity of reason but topical issues such as
ecology, welfare, social justice, and cultural diversity, among
others. In all of these, Taylor brings his fine philosophical
sensibility to bear, adapting insights from Hegel, Herder,
Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and contemporary philosophers. -- Leon H.
Brody * Library Journal *
[This] book is structured by a tightly knit agenda, one in which
the form and function of philosophical reasoning itself are at
stake. This is not just a collection of philosophical
arguments. It is a series of medications about the ability
of reason to carry out tasks assigned to it since the beginnings of
Western philosophy. -- Nicholas H. Smith * Philosophy and Social
Criticism *
This is a splendid book, perhaps Charles Taylor's best so far, and
that is high praise...[T]his is an instructively organized and
coherent book. Three introductory essays advance theses about
philosophical enquiry; then follow three that pursue enquiry thus
defined into the nature of language and its place in human life;
the next three draw on the findings of that enquiry in order to
characterize key aspects of social activity and relationships; and
the final four essays bring that characterization to bear upon
issues of political philosophy. -- Alasdair MacIntyre *
Philosophical Quarterly *
Taylor is a highly distinctive thinker...a figure of very broad
intellectual (and indeed emotional and political) sympathies and
interests. -- John Dunn * Times Higher Education Supplement *
A deeply engaging collection...[Taylor] combines a practical
interest in current political topics...with a continuing quest for
the deepest meanings of language, knowledge, and human beings. --
Stan Persky * Toronto Globe and Mail *
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