The following is a guest post by Jonathan McGregor. Jonathan is a Ph.D. student in English and American Literature and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. His research interests include 20th century and contemporary American fiction, modernity and postmodernity, secularity and postsecularity, religious epistemology, and political theology. His favorite book is […]
In this wide-ranging interview, Jeffrey Stout discusses themes from his 2004 book DEMOCRACY AND TRADITION, including such topics as religion, democracy, secularism, piety, and the intellectual orientation he, following Stanley Cavell, calls “Emersonian Perfectionism.”
In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.
Part I of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here. Part II of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here.
In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.
In the second of a three-part interview, Charles Taylor discusses his understanding of “authenticity” as something that deeply influences contemporary Western life, including how religious life is best lived in such an “age of authenticity.” In suggesting ways in which the representatives of religious traditions should respond to people in this age, Taylor echoes the themes of such twentieth-century educational theorists as Paulo Freire and John Dewey.