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Sources Of The Self - The Making Of The Modern Identity (Paperback)
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Sources Of The Self - The Making Of The Modern Identity (Paperback)
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In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood,
Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those
resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant
rejection of an objective order of reason, has led--it seems to
many--to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at
the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral
backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human
good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly
understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that
more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of
rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that
modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and
political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good.
After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how
self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by
describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral
sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and
movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern
turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long
efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this
definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life,
a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older
conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and
wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have
been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor's
goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and
endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a
decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its
critics.
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