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Habermas and the unfinished project of modernity: critical essays on The philosophical discourse of modernity. Maurizio Passerin D'Entrèves & Seyla Benhabib (eds.) - 1997 - Cambridge: MIT Press. Making modern identity: Charles Taylor's retrieval of moral sources. Sebastian Gurciullo - 2001 - Critical Horizons 2 (1):93-125.
This book attempts to define the modern identity in describing its genesis. I focus on three major facets of this identity: first, modern inwardness, the sense of ourselves as beings with inner depths, and the connected notion that we are 'selves'; second, the affirmation of ordinary life which develops from the early modern period; third, the expressivist notion of nature as an inner moral ...
27. Feb. 1996 · Quellen des Selbst bietet eine Geschichte der neuzeitlichen Identität. Mit diesem Ausdruck meint Taylor die Gesamtheit der (weitgehend unformulierten) Auffassungen dessen, was es heißt, ein handelndes menschliches Wesen zu sein - was die im neuzeitlichen Abendland beheimateten Empfindungen der Innerlichkeit, der Freiheit, der Individualität und des Eingebettetseins in die Natur bedeuten.
12. März 1992 · The modern turn inwards is far from being a disastrous rejection of rationality, as its critics contend, but has at its heart what Taylor calls the affirmation of ordinary life. He concludes that the modern identity, and its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, is far richer in moral sources that its detractors allow. Sources of ...
- Charles Taylor
(or substantive) contents of modern identity, arrived at from a philosophical and historical narrative of the Sources of the Self (1989), with the ethical project of the Philosophy of Liberation, which agrees with Taylor's project in many aspects but differs in many others. It is not a question, then, of making a
Review of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self Nate Teske Charles Taylor. Sources of the Seif: The Making of Modern Identity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. This is a big book about big ideas that encompass broad sweeps of time. It is definitely part of recent ethical and social philosophy that has been
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.
