Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor

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C        Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 P A R T I . E X I S T E N T I A L T H E I S M C       O   The Affirmation of Existential Life in Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age 13        .        C       T   Transcendence,“Spin,” and the Jamesian Open Space 39      .     P A R T I I . O N T O L O G Y A N D P O L E M I C C       T     Transcendent Sources and the Dispossession of the Self 73        .         C       F    Theorizing Secularity 3: Authenticity, Ontology, Fragilization 98          P A R T I I I . M I D D L E D W E L L E R S C       F    Humanism and the Question of Fullness 127                 C       S   The “Drive to Reform” and Its Discontents 152                              P A R T I V. E T H I C S A N D E M B O D I M E N T C       S     The Authentic Individual in the Network of Agape 191          .      C       E     Enfleshment and the Time of Ethics: Taylor and Illich on the Parable of the Good Samaritan 217                       -        P A R T V. O U T L I E R S C       N    Recovery of Meaning? A Critique of Charles Taylor’s Account of Modernity 243         C       T   Transcendence and Immanence in a Subtler Language: The Presence of Dostoevsky in Charles Taylor’s Account of Secularity 262       .     List of Contributors 291 Index 296 viii Contents ...