The Strange Uses of Political Religion
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Dr. Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University March 13, 2017 Dr. Taylor has been awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize, the 2008 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and the 2016 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy. Dr. Taylor has published widely in the areas of moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of action, philosophy of personal identity, philosophy of language, philosophy of the human sciences, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of history, and, most recently, his work has focused on the themes of religion and secularization. He is the author of numerous books, including The Explanation of Behaviour (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964); Hegel (Cambridge University Press, 1975); Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (Harvard University Press, 1989); The Ethics of Authenticity (Harvard University Press, 1991); A Secular Age (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007); Secularism and Freedom of Conscience, co-authored with Jocelyn Maclure (Harvard University Press, 2011); and The Language Animal (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2016).
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