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The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity
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ISBN: 9780674660205 067466020X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press

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"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects crucial features of our language capacity. Sometimes language serves not just to encode information, but also shapes what it purports to describe. This language is more than merely 'descriptive;' it plays a 'constitutive' role."--Provided by publisher.

The art and science of lecture demonstration
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ISBN: 0852743238 Year: 1988 Publisher: Bristol Hilger

A secular age
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ISBN: 0674026764 9780674026766 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Belknap press of Harvard university press,

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Hegel
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ISBN: 0521206790 0521291992 1107384532 1139171461 9780521206792 9780521291996 9781139171465 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press

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A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellectual and spiritual issues of his own time. He sees these in terms of a pervasive tension between the evolving ideals of individuality and self-realization on the one hand, and on the other a deeply-felt need to find significance in a wider community. Charles Taylor engages with Hegel sympathetically, on Hegel's own terms and, as the the subject demands, in detail. We are made to grasp the interconnections of the system without being overwhelmed or overawed by its technicality. We are shown its importance and its limitations, and are enabled to stand back from it.

Modern social imaginaries.
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ISBN: 0822332930 0822332558 9780822332930 9780822332558 Year: 2005 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the differences among modernities, Taylor sets out his idea of the social imaginary, a broad understanding of the way a given people imagine their collective social life. Retelling the history of Western modernity, Taylor traces the development of a distinct social imaginary. Animated by the idea of a moral order based on the mutual benefit of equal participants, the Western social imaginary is characterized by three key cultural forms-the economy, the public sphere, and self-governance. Taylor's account of these cultural formations provides a fresh perspective on how to read the specifics of Western modernity: how we came to imagine society primarily as an economy for exchanging goods and services to promote mutual prosperity, how we began to imagine the public sphere as a metaphorical place for deliberation and discussion among strangers on issues of mutual concern, and how we invented the idea of a self-governing people capable of secular "founding" acts without recourse to transcendent principles. Accessible in length and style, Modern Social Imaginaries 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.

Varieties of religion today : William James revisited
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ISBN: 0674012534 0674007603 9780674007604 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university press

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1 JAMES, WILLIAM --- Experience (Religion) --- Psychology, Religious --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Psychology of religion --- Religious psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Religious experience --- Filosofie. Psychologie--JAMES, WILLIAM --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- James, William --- جيمس، وليم --- 1 JAMES, WILLIAM Filosofie. Psychologie--JAMES, WILLIAM --- Ervaring (Godsdienst) --- Ervaring [Godsdienstige ] --- Ervaring [Religieuze ] --- Experience [Religious ] --- Expérience (Religion) --- Expérience religieuse --- Godsdienst --- Godsdienst--Psychologie --- Godsdienst--Psychologische aspecten --- Godsdiensten--Psychologie --- Godsdiensten--Psychologische aspecten --- Godsdienstige ervaring --- Godsdienstpsychologie --- Psychologie [Godsdienst] --- Psychologie de la religion --- Psychologie religieuse --- Psychologie van de godsdienst --- Psychology [Religious ] --- Religie --- Religieuze ervaring --- Religion--Aspects psychologiques --- Religion--Psychological aspects --- Religion--Psychologie --- Religion--Psychology --- Religions--Aspects psychologiques --- Religions--Psychological aspects --- Religions--Psychologie --- Religions--Psychology --- Contributions in philosophy of religion --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- James, William, --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Religious studies --- Religion. --- James, William, - 1842-1910 - Contributions in philosophy of religion --- James, William, - 1842-1910

Human agency and language
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ISBN: 0521267528 0521317509 1316098583 1316044831 1139173480 9780521317504 Year: 1985 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential unity of the work. He starts from a polemical concern with behaviourism and other reductionist theories (particularly in psychology and the philosophy of language) which aim to model the study of man on the natural sciences. This leads to a general critique of naturalism, its historical development and its importance for modern culture and consciousness; and that in turn points, forward to a positive account of human agency and the self, the constitutive role of language and value, and the scope of practical reason. The volumes jointly present some two decades of work on these fundamental themes, and convey strongly the tenacity, verve and versatility of the author in grappling with them. They will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences.


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De malaise van de moderniteit
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ISBN: 9039106002 9028919708 Year: 1996 Publisher: Kapellen Pelckmans


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The explanation of behaviour
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ISBN: 0710036205 9780710036209 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

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