An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us nothing on the basis of which to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. L...(展开全部)

An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us nothing on the basis of which to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. L...(展开全部)

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

查尔斯·泰勒：加拿大哲学家，是晚近西方特别是英美道德哲学中首屈一指的思想家、社群主义的主将。曾任牛津大学齐切里哲学与伦理学讲座教授，现任加拿大麦基尔大学哲学与政治科学教授。20世纪70年代以来，泰勒以其对黑格尔哲学的再解读、对原子主义式的消极自由的批评、对社群价值的强调、对西方文化中自我认同观念发展的梳理、对承认的政治的研究以及对文化多元论的论证，强烈地影响着西方思想界。

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. "Slow Reading in a Hurried Age" reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only...(展开全部)

The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her ex...(展开全部)

Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton) and the coauthor of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech.

The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her ex...(展开全部)