Although technology may not possess a logic of its own, one would be hard pressed to deny its formative role…
The missing all
Charles Taylor
Spinoza’s immanence
My hunch is that immanence does not necessarily lead to the “exclusive humanism” of which Taylor is so critical. My…
The truth?
As many here have noted, A Secular Age is a remarkable achievement. And it marks the culmination of a life’s…
That weird strange thing
That Charles Taylor’s massive book on the malaises and predicaments of secularity could be taken by so many distinguished intellectuals…
After Durkheim
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…
Deus absconditus and disenchantment
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern…
The scope and uses of secularity
Early in Charles Taylor’s study, he remarks that the secular condition, in which belief is an option and religion a…
Human rights in a secular age?
The theme of loss is...a deep undercurrent in Taylor’s account. One question that those of us working in the area…
Secularization ain’t dead yet
Normally, when one sits down to read a book hailed by a figure such as Robert Bellah as “one of…
The slipstream of disenchantment & the place of fullness
One of the most important books of our time, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age explains how many Europeans and their…