Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity, 1st ed. 2017 Pluralist and Emergentist Directions

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West.  A partnership between Michael Polanyi  and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

1.  Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do For Moral Philosophy.- 2. Converging Roads around Dilemmas of Modernity.- 3. Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future: Charles Taylor in Conversation.- 4. The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor.- 5. Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity.- 6.  ‘Transcendence’ In A Secular Age And Enchanted (Un)Naturalism.- 7. Polanyi’s Revolutionary Imaginary.- 8. Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary.- 9. On Emergentist Ethics and Becoming Authentic.- 10. Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems.- 11. The Importance of Engagement: Taylor, Fennell, Lowney, and Yeager in Conversation.- 12. Epilogue: Robust Moral Realism: Pluralist or Emergent?