Charles W. Taylor

At the Limits of the Secular

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

“This is a marvelously rich and suggestive book, which has helped to jar me out of the ruts I had fallen into. I am sure it will do the same for many others.”

Christianity and “the World”

Arts & Literature

“David Martin, the sociologist who taught us that secularization is not a continuous and uni-directional process, but rather a many-stranded and shifting one, now has added a new dimension to this picture. By looking at the whole story through the lens of poetry: poetry not primarily as expression of belief, but through its affinity to invocation, worship, ritual, liturgy. This yields an extraordinarily rich and perspicuous account of the currents of English spirituality through many centuries.”

Seven Brief Lessons on Magic

Science & Faith

“This brief and clearly argued book brilliantly picks apart modern confusions about science and the supposed end of magic. In distinguishing the different senses of the term, Tyson casts a great deal of light on the roles that ‘magic’ in its different senses has played in our history and is still inevitably playing in our contemporary world.”

The Crisis of Global Capitalism

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Anyone interested in finding a 'third way' between today's barely regulated capitalism and state socialism will find much to reward them in this collection. It goes beyond the rigid limitations of contemporary liberal thinking in order to explore some of the crucial resources, intellectual and cultural, that we need to devise a new politics of the Left.”