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Aims
The primary aim of this course is to read and discuss a selection of texts from Charles Taylor’s Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. An ancillary aim is to prepare an article for possible publication in a theological journal.
Indicative Syllabus
This course explores Charles Taylor’s major work on the modern subject. Through a confrontation with a series of extracts from Sources of the Self, students will be introduced to key terms and issues in contemporary debates on modern identity, subjectivity, selfhood, subjectivism, inwardness, culture, religion (s), belief, etc., with a view to a reception of Taylor’s discourse in contemporary Fundamental Theology.
Indicative Bibliography
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Turabian, Kate L. A manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th
ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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CULTURE AND RELIGION: A CRITICAL READING OF CHARLES TAYLOR’S SOURCES OF THE SELF
