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The Ethics of Authenticity

The Ethics of Authenticity

by C Taylor (Author)

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    Hardcover 1992

    $29.40
Synopsis

By looking past simplistic, one-sided judgements of modern culture, by distinguishing the good and valuable from the socially and politically perilous, Taylor articulates the promise of our age.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 142
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0674268636
ISBN 13: 9780674268630

Media Reviews
The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigour with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social...Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people...The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid. -- Richard Rorty London Review of Books Charles Taylor is a philosopher of broad reach and many talents, but his most striking talent is a gift for interpreting different traditions, cultures and philosophies to one another...[This book is] full of good things. -- Alan Ryan New York Times Book Review Taylor's crystalline insights rescue us from the plague on both houses in the debate over modernity and its discontents. -- Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune Reading Taylor's unexpected but always perceptive judgments on modernity, one becomes forcefully aware of the critical potential of that old philosophical injunction know thyself . This little book points to the importance of public reflection and debate about who we are. It also forcefully draws attention to their absence from our public culture. -- Ben Rogers Manchester Guardian These lectures provide not only an inviting summary of [Taylor's] recent thought but also, in many ways, a more revealing statement of his underlying convictions. Taylor's own voice comes through clearly in this book--the voice of a philosophically reflective and hermeneutically rooted cultural critic. -- Joel Anderson Philosophy and Social Criticism Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity is a concise, clear discussion reexamining these and closely related malaises of modernity while focusing on meaning, its importance in our lives, and why our attempts to find our identities matter--whether these identities be personal, social, political, aesthetic, or scientific. He affirms the moral ground underlying modern individualism, but challenges us to go beyond relativism to pluralism. -- Paul Roebuck Ethics, Place and Environment
Author Bio
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University.