Modern social imaginaries

Informationen zum Autor Charles Taylor Klappentext An accounting of the varying forms of social imaginary that have underpinned the rise of Western modernity. Zusammenfassung Offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Modern Moral Order 3 2 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 23 3 the Specter of idealism 31 4 The Great Disembedding 49 5 The Economy as Objectified Reality 69 6 The Public Sphere 83 7 Public and Private 101 8 The Sovereign People 109 9 An All-Pervasive Order 143 10 The Direct-Access Society 155 11 Agency and Objectification 163 12 Modes of Narration 175 13 The Meaning of Secularity 185 14 Provincializing Europe 195 Notes 197

Product details

• Authors: Charles Taylor, Taylor, Charles Taylor
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2004
• EAN: 9780822332558
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3255-8
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous