Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity - Pluralist and Emergentist Directions

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West.  A partnership between Michael Polanyi  and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

List of contents

1.  Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do For Moral Philosophy.- 2. Converging Roads around Dilemmas of Modernity.- 3. Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future: Charles Taylor in Conversation.- 4. The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor.- 5. Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity.- 6.  'Transcendence' In A Secular Age And Enchanted (Un)Naturalism.- 7. Polanyi's Revolutionary Imaginary.- 8. Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary.- 9. On Emergentist Ethics and Becoming Authentic.- 10. Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems.- 11. The Importance of Engagement: Taylor, Fennell, Lowney, and Yeager in Conversation.- 12. Epilogue: Robust Moral Realism: Pluralist or Emergent?

About the author

Charles W. Lowney II is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins University, Virginia, USA.

Summary

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West.  A partnership between Michael Polanyi  and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Charles W. Lowney (Editor), Charles W. Lowney II (Editor), Charle W Lowney II (Editor), Charles W Lowney II (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319876658
• ISBN: 978-3-31-987665-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Illustrations: XII, 290 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; B, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Ethics, Cultural Policy, Philosophy, Political Theory, Epistemology, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Cultural Policy and Politics, Moral Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge