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ISBN
0674268636
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Ethics of Authenticity
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Charles Taylor
Item Length
8.7in
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. At the heart of the modern malaise, according to most accounts, is the notion of authenticity, of self-fulfillment, which seems to render ineffective the whole tradition of common values and social commitment. Though Taylor recognizes the dangers associated with modernity's drive toward self realization, he is not as quick as others to dismiss it. He calls for a freeze on cultural pessimism. In a discussion of ideas and ideologies from Friedrich Nietzsche to Gail Sheehy, from Allan Bloom to Michel Foucault, Taylor sorts out the good from the harmful in the modern cultivation of an authentic self. He sets forth the entire network of thought and morals that link our quest for self-creation with our impulse toward self-fashioning, and shows how such efforts must be conducted against an existing set of rules, or a gridwork of moral measurement. Seen against this network, our modern preoccupations with expression, rights, and the subjectivity of human thought reveal themselves as assets, not liabilities. By looking past simplistic, one-sided judgments of modern culture, by distinguishing the good and valuable from the socially and politically perilous, Taylor articulates the promise of our age. His bracing and provocative book gives voice to the challenge of modernity, and calls on all of us to answer it.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674268636
ISBN-13
9780674268630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Charles Taylor
Publication Name
Ethics of Authenticity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Bf637.S4t39 1992
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Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity is a concise, clear discussion reexamining these and closely related "malaises" of modernity while focusing on meaning, its importance in our lives, and why our attempts to find our identities matter--whether these identities be personal, social, political, aesthetic, or scientific. He affirms the moral ground underlying modern individualism, but challenges us to go beyond relativism to pluralism., Taylor's crystalline insights rescue us from the plague on both houses in the debate over modernity and its discontents., Charles Taylor is a philosopher of broad reach and many talents, but his most striking talent is a gift for interpreting different traditions, cultures and philosophies to one another...[This book is] full of good things., Reading Taylor's unexpected but always perceptive judgments on modernity, one becomes forcefully aware of the critical potential of that old philosophical injunction 'know thyself'. This little book points to the importance of public reflection and debate about who we are. It also forcefully draws attention to their absence from our public culture., The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigour with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social...Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people...The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid., These lectures provide not only an inviting summary of [Taylor's] recent thought but also, in many ways, a more revealing statement of his underlying convictions. Taylor's own voice comes through clearly in this book--the voice of a philosophically reflective and hermeneutically rooted cultural critic., Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity is a concise, clear discussion reexamining these and closely related 'malaises' of modernity while focusing on meaning, its importance in our lives, and why our attempts to find our identities matter--whether these identities be personal, social, political, aesthetic, or scientific. He affirms the moral ground underlying modern individualism, but challenges us to go beyond relativism to pluralism., Reading Taylor's unexpected but always perceptive judgments on modernity, one becomes forcefully aware of the critical potential of that old philosophical injunction "know thyself". This little book points to the importance of public reflection and debate about who we are. It also forcefully draws attention to their absence from our public culture.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments I. Three Malaises II. The Inarticulate Debate III. The Sources of Authenticity IV. Inescapable Horizons V. The Need for Recognition VI. The Slide to Subjectivism VII. La Lotta Continua VIII. Subtler Languages IX. An Iron Cage? X. Against Fragmentation Notes Index
Copyright Date
1991
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Civilization, Personal Growth / General, Sociology / General, General
Lccn
92-009179
Dewey Decimal
320.01
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Self-Help, History, Social Science, Philosophy

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  • by birderajp
    Mar 11, 2014

    A well-written, thought-provoking analysis of Western societies today.

    A very thought-provoking, insightful sketch of a moral that undergirds modern Western societies. Taylor shows us that individuality and moral relativism are debased forms of a higher ideal: the ethic of authenticity. He presents a convincing argument that true authenticity is developed in dialogue with significant others. In order to avoid the more selfish debased forms we must recognize that being true to others is a key part of being true to ourselves. This book could significantly affect how you look at the Western world. I recommend it.

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    Oct 02, 2019

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    Needed the book for my philosophy class. Good book

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