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Bashing the Enlightenment: A Discussion of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Ronald de Sousa
Ronald de Sousa
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University of Toronto
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This is a Big Book from one of Canada's preeminent philosophers. It aims at nothing less than to define what characterizes modernity, and then to tell us what is wrong with it. Like many a Big Book, it is predictably full of interesting things, and equally predictably disappointing, not to say feeble, in some of the central theses for which it argues. But then what more, in philosophy, can we really expect? It's what we tell our students: you don't have to be right, and you don't have to make me agree with you, but you do have to produce interesting arguments and show that you have thought seriously about the issues.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 109 - 124
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1994

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