Charles Taylor: The Language Animal [2016] hardback ZATHR we have reached an inflection

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'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth

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mind altering' New Statesman

Charles Taylor: The Language Animal [2016] hardback ZATHR we have reached an inflectionIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs