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Canadian political philosopher Charles Taylor (1931) is one of the most important English-speaking thinkers of the moment. In high-profile books such as The Malaise of Modernity and Multiculturalism, he examines highly topical philosophical and social problems. He plays a central role in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism. According to Taylor, a well-functioning community is a prerequisite for a living democracy. With this view he wants to offer a counterbalance to liberalism, which emphasizes the importance of individualism. But he certainly does not categorically reject individualism, as is evident from Sources of the Self, an impressive search for the sources of modern identity. Ingeborg Breuer provides a clear and readable overview of Taylor's work, which covers several thousand pages.
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