Taylor / Gaonkar / Kramer Modern Social Imaginaries

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8580-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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An accounting of the varying forms of social imaginary that have underpinned the rise of Western modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Charles

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Kramer, Jane

Lee, Benjamin

Warner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited; Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; The Ethics of Authenticity; Hegel; and the essay “The Politics of Recognition,” which appeared in Multiculturalism (edited by Amy Gutmann).