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The Ethics of Authenticity
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by Charles Taylor
Harvard University Press
Due/Published
July 1992, 152 pages,
cloth
ISBN
0674268636
At the heart of the modern malaise, according to most accounts, is the notion of authenticity, to selffulfillment, which seems to render ineffective the whole tradition of common values and social commitment. Though Taylor recognizes the dangers associated with modernity's drive toward self realization, he is not as quick as others to dismiss it. He calls for a freeze on cultural pessimism. |
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