Humanities and Social Translation Series -- The Roots of the Self: The Formation of Modern Identity

Author: Charles Taylor (Canada), translated by Han Zhen et al.
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This book is a masterpiece of the renowned contemporary philosopher and champion of communitarianism, Charles Taylor, and is hailed as the "most important philosophical work of the past twenty-five years." It explores the history of ideas in Western thought regarding self, affirmation, and expression in everyday life, outlining the process of the formation of the modern self. The book argues that the conflicting moral views inherited by modern people are the result of self-grasping or defining "good" in the context of modernity. This book is a masterpiece of the renowned contemporary philosopher and champion of communitarianism, Charles Taylor, and is hailed as the "most important philosophical work of the past twenty-five years." It explores the history of ideas in Western thought regarding self, affirmation, and expression in everyday life, outlining the process of the formation of the modern self. The book argues that the conflicting moral views inherited by modern people are the result of self-grasping or defining "good" in the context of modernity.