Summary
Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self
Creating a Modern Identity
"Sources of the Self" represent not only a precious synthesis of more than ten years of effort by one of the most influential and fruitful thinkers of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, but also an exceptional document of extraordinary education and erudition in which the most diverse areas and phenomena of theory, social and spiritual life are presented with unusual easily lead you to convincing points. It would be hard to find any area of social or spiritual sciences (philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, philology, science of literature, ethnology, etc.) that remained outside the scope of consideration of this work of Taylor's, and not just incidentally and for the purpose of completing some kind of imagined panoramic presentation, but as a function of an overall, integrally conceived and masterfully conducted research. Therefore, without the risk of exaggeration, it could be said that "Sources of the Self" represent a kind of "wisdom book" of our time in which anyone with any intellectual curiosity or even a certain theoretical interest will find something stimulating for themselves.
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