Charles Taylor at 90

The 90-year-old Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is one of the major theorists of modern subjectivity. His influential 1989 book Sources of the Self weaves a centuries-long narrative about the development of modern notions of selfhood, and his mammoth 2007 volume A Secular Age explores the implications of a secular turn in culture. Much shorter than […]

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