A secular age / Charles Taylor.
A secular age / Charles Taylor.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N211.6/23
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English
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x, 874 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The work of reform -- The bulwarks of belief -- The rise of the disciplinary society -- The great disembedding -- Modern social imaginaries -- The spectre of idealism -- The turning point -- Providential deism -- The impersonal order -- The nova effect -- The malaises of modernity -- The dark abyss...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2007.
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"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which...
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A secular age / Charles Taylor.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-851) and index.
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Other version (online)
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N211.6/23
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74VK3GM2gaoy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3GM2gaoy
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ISBN
0674026764 (alk. paper)
9780674026766 (alk. paper)
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211.6
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991023831989702626
