Jordan's review
A Secular Age
by Charles Taylor
Jordan's review
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Jordan's review
rating:
bookshelves:
history,
religion,
social-criticism
finished this after a month or so - and oh, it's fantastic! A sensible and well-written work of historical interpretation that obliquely counters the hot-headed rantings of Christopher Hitchens and his ilk. It's a long book because philosophically speaking, Taylor doesn't take some things for granted: he goes around them the long way in the process of unpacking them. But as we move into the latter half of the book, and Taylor's account of modernity, it grows increasingly relevant.
