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Dialectics of the Self: |
- Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher concerned with morality and
the nature of the identity of individuals and groups in the modern West.
Dr.Fraser offers a critical evaluation of Taylor’s conception of the self,
and of its moral and political possibilities in modernity, from the perspective
of Marxist dialectics, especially as developed in the writings of Bloch,
Benjamin and Adorno. What distinguishes this from other books in the area
is its plainly critical intent, aiming more at criticism than exegesis.
It includes an up-to-date evaluation of Taylor’s most recent work — in
some ways his most explicitly religious texts — to which older introductions
to his thinking had no access.
Dr Ian Fraser is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Nottingham Trent University. His previous publications include Hegel and Marx: The Concept of Need (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).
CONTENTS:
Introduction
1. The Self
2. Catholicism
3. Transcendence
4. Epiphany
5. Art: The Presence of Adorno;
6. Social Imaginaries
7. The Aesthetic Self
Bibliography
Index