Sources of the Self

The Making of the Modern Identity

Charles Taylor

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674824263

Publication Date: 03/01/1992

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624 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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PHILOSOPHY: General

Preface
I. Identity and the Good
- 1. Inescapable Frameworks
- 2. The Self in Moral Space
- 3. Ethics of Inarticulacy
- 4. Moral Sources
II. Inwardness
- 5. Moral Topography
- 6. Plato’s Self-Mastery
- 7. “In Interiore Homine”
- 8. Descartes’s Disengaged Reason
- 9. Locke’s Punctual Self
- 10. Exploring “l’Humaine Condition”
- 11. Inner Nature
- 12. A Digression on Historical Explanation
III. The Affirmation of Ordinary Life
- 13. “God Loveth Adverbs”
- 14. Rationalized Christianity
- 15. Moral Sentiments
- 16. The Providential Order
- 17. The Culture of Modernity
IV. The Voice of Nature
- 18. Fractured Horizons
- 19. Radical Enlightenment
- 20. Nature as Source
- 21. The Expressivist Turn
V. Subtler Languages
- 22. Our Victorian Contemporaries
- 23. Visions of the Post-Romantic Age
- 24. Epiphanies of Modernism
- 25. Conclusion: The Conflicts of Modernity
Notes
Index

Awards & Accolades

2013 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association

Charles Taylor Is Winner of the 2016 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture • 2008 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy • 2007 Templeton Prize

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