The modern social imaginary [ Week 4, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]


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This week’s readings:

Ulf Bohmann and Darío Montero, ‘History, Critique, Social Change and Democracy: An Interview with Charles Taylor,’ Constellations 21, no. 1 (2014): 3–15, doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12069.

Charles Taylor, ‘The Modern Moral Order,’ ‘What Is a “Social Imaginary” ?’ and ‘The Specter of Idealism,’ chap. 1, 2 and 3 in Modern Social Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2004), doi.org/10.1215/9780822385806.

[supplemental]

Charles Taylor, ‘Our Victorian Contemporaries,’ and ‘Visions of the Post-Romantic Age,’ chap. 22 and 23 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.