The Taylor Effect

Responding to a Secular Age
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-2263-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cassidy, Eoin

Kearns, Alan

Ryan, Fainche

Leask, Ian

Shanahan, Mary

Über Autor(innen)

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.