Sources of the Self

Name: Sources of the Self
Author: Charles Taylor

by Charles Taylor

History of modern identity's sources in literature, Romanticism, and individualism

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Charles Taylor

Canadian philosopher whose Sources of the Self is the most ambitious attempt to narrate the formation of modern identity. A Secular Age examined how belief in God became one option among many in the modern West. He is one of the most important Catholic intellectuals of his generation.

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