Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West. A partnership between Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

Discusses and develops two major thinkers: Charles Taylor and Michael Polanyi

Provides a critique of Modern thinking

Contrasts directions for modernity by looking at the differences between postmodern pluralist and emergentist thinking

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Charles W. Lowney II is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins University, Virginia, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do For Moral Philosophy Part I: An Epistemological Revolution 2. Converging Roads around Dilemmas of Modernity 3. Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future: Charles Taylor in Conversation Part Ii: Projects, Possibilities and Challenges 4. The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor 5. Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity 6. 'Transcendence' In A Secular Age And Enchanted (Un)Naturalism Part Iii: Toward A New Modernity: Taylor And Polanyi In Conversation 7. Polanyi's Revolutionary Imaginary 8. Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary 9. On Emergentist Ethics and Becoming Authentic 10. Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems 11. The Importance of Engagement: Taylor, Fennell, Lowney, and Yeager in Conversation 12. Epilogue: Robust Moral Realism: Pluralist or Emergent