Phenomenology and ‘the background’ [ Week 3, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]

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Phenomenology and ‘the background’ [ Week 3, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]

If you wish to attend in person and require access to the upper levels of the Schwarzman Centre, please write stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk.

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This week’s readings:

Charles Taylor, ‘Engaged Agency and Background in Heidegger,’ in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, edited by Charles B. Guignon, 202–21 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521821363.008.

Charles Taylor, ‘The Self in Moral Space,’ ‘Ethics of Inarticulacy’ and Moral Sources,’ chap. 2, 3 and 4 in Sources of the Self (Harvard University Press, 1992), solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/35n82s/alma990224324660107026.

For the full programme visit users.ox.ac.uk/~scro3052/phenomenology/programme.pdf.

Date: 31 October 2025, 12:00
Venue: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A (Seminar Room A)
Speaker: Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Organiser contact email address: stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~scro3052
Audience: Public
Editor: Stevan Veljkovic