One of the most important books of our time, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age explains how many Europeans and their…
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
A story to tell
Stories, at least good stories, are full of details that demand time and space in a narrative. They are worth…
The buffered self and the battle of ideas
As I read Wendy Brown's recent post on A Secular Age, I see that I made a bad job of…
Idealism, materialism, secularism?
When I teach early modern political theory to undergraduates, I begin by trying to conjure a worldview and subjective experience…
Secularism of a new kind
I have long admired Charles Taylor and have read most of what he has written and always found him helpful.…