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Language is central to political philosophy, yet until now there
has been little in the way of a common framework capable of
bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and
ethics. Studies are predominantly carried out in isolated
disciplinary silos - notably linguistics, philosophy, political
science, public administration, and education. This volume proposes
a new vision for understanding the political ethics of language,
particularly in linguistically diverse societies, and it
establishes the necessary common framework for this field of
inquiry: language ethics. Through creative and constructive
thinking, Language Ethics considers how to advance our
understanding of the human commonalities of moral and linguistic
capacities and the challenge of linguistic difference and societal
interdependence. The book embraces the longstanding centrality of
language to moral reasoning and reinterprets it in a manner that
draws on the social and political life of real-world inter- and
intralinguistic issues. Contributors to this collection are leading
international experts from different disciplines and approaches
whose voices add diverse insight to the discourse on ethics and
language justice. Exploring social, political, and economic
realities, Language Ethics illuminates the complex nexus between
ethics and language and highlights the contemporary challenges
facing multilingual societies, including the uncertainties,
ambiguities, anxieties, and hopes that accompany them.
There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has
not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions
to our understanding of action, language, and mind. He has had a
lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social
sciences should be practised, taking an interpretive stance in
opposition to dominant positivist methodologies. Taylor's powerful
critiques of atomistic versions of liberalism have redefined the
agenda of political philosophers. He has produced prodigious
intellectual histories aiming to excavate the origins of the way in
which we have construed the modern self, and of the complex
intellectual and spiritual trajectories that have culminated in
modern secularism. Despite the apparent diversity of Taylor's work,
it is driven by a unified vision. Throughout his writings, Taylor
opposes reductive conceptions of the human and of human societies
that empiricist and positivist thinkers from David Hume to B.F.
Skinner believed would lend rigour to the human sciences. In their
place, Taylor has articulated a vision of humans as interpretive
beings who can be understood neither individually nor collectively
without reference to the fundamental goods and values through which
they make sense of their lives. The contributors to this volume,
all distinguished philosophers and social theorists in their own
right, offer critical assessments of Taylor's writings. Taken
together, they provide the reader with an unrivalled perspective on
the full extent of Charles Taylor's contribution to modern
philosophy.
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Pandemic Societies (Paperback)
Jean-Louis Denis, Catherine Régis, Daniel M. Weinstock; As told to Clara Champagne
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R669
Discovery Miles 6 690
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many thought the changes
taking place would be fleeting. It is now widely recognized that
COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our highly interconnected
world, and “pandemic societies” will be with us for some time.
Pandemic Societies brings together experts in a wide range of
academic disciplines to reflect on how their fields might be
transformed in this new context. While the pandemic forces global
institutions, such as the World Health Organization, to reimagine
the ways in which they function, it also reaches into our everyday
lives to change how we organize culture, performing arts, sports,
tourism, and cities. Exploring how COVID-19 has altered people’s
daily experiences – the ways they meet to play, to perform, and
to entertain themselves – this book also pulls the lens back to
take in the broader institutional and political contexts in which
these quotidian activities are carried out. Examining the profound
ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every aspect of
our lives, Pandemic Societies attempts to understand how we might
act to steer this pandemic society, and how to reinvent
institutions and practices that we think of as intrinsically face
to face.
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work
and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the
human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age.
Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral
and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one
of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy
which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a way that is
compelling to specialists in various disciplines. This collection
of specially commissioned essays brings together twelve
distinguished scholars from a variety of fields to discuss
critically Taylor's work. The topics range from the history of
philosophy, to truth, modernity and postmodernity, theism,
interpretation, the human sciences, liberalism, pluralism and
difference. Taylor responds to all the contributions and
re-articulates his own views.
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