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The Taylor Effect: Responding to a Secular Age
Author(s): Ian Leask with Eoin Cassidy (Author, Editor), Alan Kearns (Author, Editor), Fainche Ryan (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 10 Aug. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443822639
- ISBN-13: 9781443822633
Book Description
The Taylor Effect presents an original and diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor’s magisterial A Secular Age. Ranging from close and critical readings of Taylor’s formulations and suppositions; to comparative studies of Taylor and various ‘interlocutors’; to applied approaches utilizing Taylor’s concepts; to explorations launched from a Taylorian foundation; the 13 chapters comprise a multifaceted exploration of Taylor’s multifaceted achievement. Given the vast, synoptic sweep of Taylor’s magnum opus, the contributors represent a suitably diverse range of interests, backgrounds and expertise―members of departments of philosophy, literature, philosophical theology, systematic theology, moral theology, education, and political science, whose interests stretch from Plato to Girard, phronesis to pedagogy, Deism to dogmatics, medical ethics to aesthetics… Accordingly, The Taylor Effect is not only one of the first major responses to A Secular Age: the astonishing breadth as well as the quality of contributions will ensure that it remains a central reference point in any future discussion of Taylor’s work.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Charles Taylor is one of the most inspiring philosophers of our time, addressing urgent questions of politics, ethics, language, culture and religion. In this volume some of his keenest readers engage in timely debate with the master and bring the discussion to new levels of intellectual excitement and insight. –Prof. Richard Kearney, Boston College & University College Dublin
About the Author
Ian Leask is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University. He is the author of Questions of Platonism, and the editor of Givenness and God: Questions of Jean-Luc Marion.
