Charles Taylor: 98 books

David Angel is an intense and brooding man, made that way by his very nature. Paula Lane is a vibrant and caring woman, saddened due to life's circumstances. Together, they make do while trying to learn how and why the other survives. It's a mystery they will explore together, drawing on each other's...

Nathan Angel has been mourning his wife for three years. During that time he has upheld his responsibilities and honored his wife's memory by raising their children. However, that honor has come with a price that tears at Nathan's soul. He is a good man, made that way through tragedy. In a similar...

Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) tr. by Charles Taylor A beautiful extract from the Talmud, which has been used as liturgy. Devoted to ethics with some mystical touches, the Pirqe Aboth is distinguished for its transparency and simplicity. This was one of the first English translations...

Dix ans après la Commission Bouchard-Taylor, comment évaluer ses retombées? Échec pour les uns et succès pour les autres, comment en juger? Cet ouvrage donne l’heure juste en proposant un bilan interdisciplinaire et international des enjeux de fond que la Commission a contribué à définir,...

Durante siglos, los filósofos han estado divididos acerca de la naturaleza del lenguaje. Los de tradición empirista afirman que el lenguaje es una herramienta desarrollada por los seres humanos para codificar y comunicar información. Pero esta visión, afirma Taylor, descuida el papel crucial que...

This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that...

The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Según Descartes, el conocimiento existe en forma de ideas, que supuestamente representan el mundo. Esta epistemología -ideas que median entre la realidad externa y nuestra mente- sigue ejerciendo un control sobre el pensamiento occidental. Sin embargo, como muestran Dreyfus y Taylor, el conocimiento...

It is, without question, an incident that defined an era in sports entertainment and marked - if not tainted - the legacies of two of the greatest professional wrestlers in modern history. It was a memorable and some say disgraceful event that is universally known today by just one word: Montreal.The...

This book is an autobiographical sequence of poems and black and white images following the poet from childhood through despair to recovery and acceptance. It covers eighty or more poems through California, to Colorado, ending with Midwestern poems, always focusing on the poets birth place in retrospect,...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures...

The Second Edition of Dibré Aboth ha-Olam or Sayings of the Jewish Fathers may be shortly described as a reprint of the work as published in 1877, with a section of ADDITIONAL NOTES. Interspersed with the reprint are insertions in square brackets, a few things are omitted, and short new notes fill up...

The Bible reveals much about angels; however, as it is with other subject matters in the Bible, the subject of angels could be treated superficially with its deeper truths overlooked or missed. This book does not attempt to address all there is to angels but intends to uncover profound truths about...

Love is the strongest weapon we have as humans.So many adolescent relationships are based on shielding ones most internal desires. Instead of openly professing their feelings for one another, a tireless game of hard to get, cat and mouse and shadows and mirrors is pursued. Coinciding with a newfound...