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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Taylor, Charles, 1931- Modern social imaginaries. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)607011274 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Taylor |
ISBN: | 0822332558 9780822332558 0822332930 9780822332930 |
OCLC Number: | 52714732 |
Description: | 215 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | The modern moral order -- What is a "social imaginary"? -- The specter of idealism -- The great disembedding -- The economy as objectified reality -- The public sphere -- Public and private -- The sovereign people -- An all-pervasive order -- The direct-access society -- Agency and objectification -- Modes of narration -- The meaning of secularity -- Provincializing Europe. |
Series Title: | Public planet books. |
Responsibility: | Charles Taylor. |
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"Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order-but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity's defining cultural formations. His particular take on the 'social imaginary' makes the strongest case there is for the idea of 'multiple modernities.'"-Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University Read more...

