A Secular Age

Informationen zum Autor Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal , Sources of the Self , The Ethics of Authenticity , and A Secular Age , he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada. Klappentext Taylor takes up the question of what happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others. Zusammenfassung The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries! particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time! Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean! and what! precisely! happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part I: The Work of Reform 1. The Bulwarks of Belief 2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society 3. The Great Disembedding 4. Modern Social Imaginaries 5. The Spectre of Idealism Part II: The Turning Point 6. Providential Deism 7. The Impersonal Order Part III: The Nova Effect 8. The Malaises of Modernity 9. The Dark Abyss of Time 10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief 11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories Part IV: Narratives of Secularization 12. The Age of Mobilization 13. The Age of Authenticity 14. Religion Today Part V: Conditions of Belief 15. The Immanent Frame 16. Cross Pressures 17. Dilemmas 1 18. Dilemmas 2 19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity 20. Conversions Epilogue: The Many Stories Notes Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charles Taylor
• Verlag: Belknap press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.10.2007
• EAN: 9780674026766
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02676-6
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 240 mm x 48 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Moral, Revolution, Renaissance, England, Nietzsche, Reformation, Freedom, Europe, France, Darwin, Kant, orthodox, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Science, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, United States, Catholicism, Rationality, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, Abortion, Public Private, Disenchantment, age authenticity, separation church state