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Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age, whose title is inspired by Charles Taylor's magisterial A Secular Age, offers a host of expert analyses of the religious and theological threads running throughout Taylor’s oeuvre, illuminating further his approaches to morality, politics, history, and philosophy. Although the scope of Taylor’s insight into modern secularity has been widely recognized by his fellow social theorists and philosophers, Aspiring to Fullness focuses on Taylor's insights regarding questions of religious experience. It is with a view to such experience that the volume’s contributors consider and assess Taylor’s broad analysis of the limits and potentialities of the present age in regard to human fullness or fulfillment.

The essays in this volume address crucial questions about the function and significance of religious accounts of transcendence in Taylor’s overall philosophical project; the critical purchase and limitations of Taylor’s assessment of the centrality of codes and institutions in modern political ethics; the possibilities inherent in Taylor’s brand of post-Nietzschean theism; the significance and meaning of Taylor’s ambivalence about modern destiny; the possibility of a practical application of his insights within particular contemporary religious communities; and the overall implications of Taylor’s thought for theology and philosophy of religion. Although some commentators have referred to a recent religious “turn” in Taylor’s work, the contributors to Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age examine the ways in which transcendence functions, both explicitly and implicitly, in Taylor’s philosophical project as a whole.

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University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

30 mai 2014

EAN13

9780268077020

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

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Aspiring to fullness in a secular age : essays on religion and theology in the work of Charles Taylor / edited by Carlos D. Colorado and Justin D. Klassen. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-268-02376-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-268-02376-X (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-268-07702-0 (e-book) 1. Taylor, Charles, 1931– 2. Taylor, Charles, 1931– Secular age. 3. Religion. 4. Theology. I. Colorado, Carlos D., editor of compilation. B995.T34A87 2014 191—dc23

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∞ The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Dedicated to the memory of

Càîà MYô (1960 – 2010)

Student, teacher, thinker, friend

PART I.

C ô   é   ŝ

Acknowledgments

Introduction 1

EXISTENTIAL THEISM

Càé Oé The Aﬃrmation of Existential Life in Charles Taylor’sA Secular Age13 justin d. klassen

Càé Tô Transcendence, “Spin,” and the Jamesian Open Space paul d. janz

PART II.

ONTOLOGY AND POLEMIC

Càé Téé Transcendent Sources and the Dispossession of the Self carlos d. colorado

Càé FôU Theorizing Secularity 3: Authenticity, Ontology, Fragilization ruth abbey

viii

Contents

PART III. MIDDLE DWELLERS

Càé Fîé Humanism and the Question of Fullness william schweiker

127

Càé SîX The “Drive to Reform” and Its Discontents 152 charles mathewes and joshua yates

PART IV.

ETHICS AND EMBODIMENT

Càé Séé The Authentic Individual in the Network of Agape jennifer a. herdt

191

Càé Eî Enﬂeshment and the Time of Ethics: Taylor and Illich on the Parable of the Good Samaritan 217 eric gregory and leah hunt-hendrix

PART V.

OUTLIERS

Càé Nîé Recovery of Meaning? A Critique of Charles Taylor’s Account of Modernity 243 ian angus

Càé Té Transcendence and Immanence in a Subtler Language: The Presence of Dostoevsky in Charles Taylor’s Account of Secularity 262 bruce k. ward

List of Contributors291 Index296

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This book has been many years in the making; consequently, the debts ofgratitude we owe for its completion are many. We are grateful to Ian Angusfor introducing us both to Charles Taylor’s work as undergraduate studentsin the Humanities Department at Simon Fraser University. Later, duringPh.D. studies in the Religious Studies Department at McMaster Univer-sity, Travis Kroeker encouraged us to engage Taylor’s work in its theologi-cal implications and thus helped to inspire this project in its early stages.We are grateful to Travis for that, and to our other professors and fellowstudents at McMaster, who made this undertaking seem important andnecessary rather than only daunting. The School of Graduate Studies atMac has our thanks for building and safeguarding a context in which doc-toral students are supported in the pursuit of research projects that stretchand challenge. Charles Van Hof, our editor at University of Notre Dame Press, hasbeen an invaluable supporter of this project since we ﬁrst met with him todiscuss our proposal at a meeting of the AAR some years ago. We have triedto craft a ﬁnal product worthy of his conﬁdence. We also thank the anony-mous reviewers of the manuscript for their careful attention to the textand for their many helpful suggestions for its improvement. We are tremendously grateful to all of our contributing authors for theexcellence of their submissions, and for trusting the vision (and editorialsuggestions) of a couple of green and relatively unknown scholars. We thank Charles Taylor himself for producing such an enormouslyengaging body of work, and for being a willing interlocutor over the years.In our experience, Chuck has always made time for conversation at con-ferences, after public lectures, and by e-mail. We wrote to him with small

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