Modern Social Imaginaries

Informationen zum Autor Charles Taylor Klappentext "Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order--but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity's defining cultural formations. His particular take on the 'social imaginary' makes the strongest case there is for the idea of 'multiple modernities.'"--Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University 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: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9780822332930
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3293-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Public Planet; Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books; Public Planet
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day