Books by Charles Taylor
A Secular Age
by Charles Taylor
Taylor is not preaching a sermon or setting out to convert you but he does want to raise deep questions as to whether we have mastered the world the way we thought we did two centuries ago.
“What is so powerful and marvellous about Taylor’s book is what the title announces – this deep question of where do we get our ideas of ourselves from? And the answer is history.” Read more...
The best books on The Cult of Celebrity
Fred Inglis, Social Scientist
Interviews where books by Charles Taylor were recommended
The best books on The Cult of Celebrity, recommended by Fred Inglis
Fred Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield, selects five books to help us understand the cult of celebrity, which is, as he puts it, “the public dramatisation of our best and worst feelings”.
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
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This Time Is Different
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
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A Demon of Our Own Design
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Sources of the Self
by Charles Taylor
The best books on Financial Crashes, recommended by Charles Morris
The best books on Financial Crashes, recommended by Charles Morris
The former banker and author of 12 books on economics says that over the last 30 years economics has been colonising every science. “Even something like education all comes down to incentives”
The best books on Religion versus Secularism in History, recommended by Martin Marty
The professor of religious history says that though the world may seem to be increasingly secular, the growth of Christianity and Islam in some places disproves it. He chooses five books that fuel the debate
