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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living or what confers meaning on individual lives” writes Charles Taylor in his latest book. “This is an essemially modern predicament.” In this immense inquiry into the sources off modern sellfhood Charles Taykar demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity with its amen-date rejection of an objective order of reason hus led-it seems to many-to mene suityjectivis at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Taylor rejects this view He argues that properly understood our modern notion of the sellf pro-vides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of reality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity in all its epistemological aesthetic and political ramifications has its roots in ideas of human good. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life a value which has decisively if not com-pletely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. (MP)