A Secular Age

作者：CharlesTaylor

出版社：TheBelknapPressofHarvardUniversityPress

出版年：2007-9-20

页数：896

定价：USD50.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780674026766

内容简介
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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we – in the West, at least – largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean – of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion – although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined – but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations.What this means for the world – including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence – is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless.

作者简介
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Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University and author of influential books including Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age. He has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.

目录
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Preface

Introduction

Part I. The Work of Reform

1. The Bulwarks of Belief

2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society

3. The Great Disembedding

4. Modern Social Imaginaries

5. The Spectre of Idealism

Part II. The Turning Point

6. Providential Deism

7. The Impersonal Order

Part III. The Nova Effect

8. The Malaises of Modernity

9. The Dark Abyss of Time

10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief

11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories

Part IV. Narratives of Secularization

12. The Age of Mobilization

13. The Age of Authenticity

14. Religion Today

Part V. Conditions of Belief

15. The Immanent Frame

16. Cross Pressures

17. Dilemmas 1

18. Dilemmas 2

19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity

20. Conversions

Epilogue: The Many Stories

Notes

Index

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要玩世俗化？哈哈，河北平原绝逼能把欧美玩成渣渣，不要把松懈爽和操当成世俗化，世俗化是要比成佛做王还要难的，你既然现在这么自信，那就开始吧

这本书的大旨对宗教背景研究世俗主义的可能"out"了一点，但是对思想史的人来说，对ideas的梳理非常精彩。如果能短点少些重复就好了

中规中矩。不出人意料的对老头子失去了昔日的崇拜。

儘管這本書的許多見解值得五顆星，但他在好的部分與卑微的基督教進行了平衡。
泰勒一直在誤解那些他不同意的哲學家（尼采、加繆、薩特、福柯等人），把他的宗教信仰注入文本的所有錯誤部分（雖然誠實，但一般來說沒有必要），並且沒有令人滿意地提出、回應或爭論他所提出的任何材料。
泰勒忽視宗教原教旨主義在20世紀末和21世紀初的強大崛起和影響。在我們的時代，宗教仇恨的力量肯定與人們對今天宗教狀況的態度和評估有關。…

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