Charles Taylor is Professor emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Montréal and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. His most recent book is A Secular Age.
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Commentaries by Charles Taylor
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Solidarity in a Pluralist Age
VIENNA – Solidarity is essential to democratic societies; otherwise, they fall apart. They cannot function beyond a certain level of mutual …
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Block Thinking
“Multiculturalism” has become a suspect term almost everywhere in the world nowadays, and particularly in Europe. People say things like: “I…
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Seeking Sovereignty in Europe and Iraq
Two very different efforts at "nation building" are galvanizing world attention: America's struggle to construct a viable polity in Iraq and…
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The Other and Ourselves: Is Multi-culturalism Inherently Relativist?
Understanding "the other" will pose the 21 st century's greatest social challenge. The days are over when "Westerners" could consider their…
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The Alchemy of Violence
As Slobodan Milosevic awaits his war crimes trial in the Hague, it may be salutary to ask why is it that categorical violence – genocide,…
