Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited; Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; The Ethics of Authenticity; Hegel; and the essay “The Politics of Recognition,” which appeared in Multiculturalism (edited by Amy Gutmann).

“Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order-but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity’s defining cultural formations. His particular take on the ‘social imaginary’ makes the strongest case there is for the idea of ‘multiple modernities.’”-Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University

• Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 11 The Modern Moral Order 32 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 233 the Specter of idealism 314 The Great Disembedding 495 The Economy as Objectified Reality 696 The Public Sphere 837 Public and Private 1018 The Sovereign People 1099 An All-Pervasive Order 14310 The Direct-Access Society 15511 Agency and Objectification 16312 Modes of Narration 17513 The Meaning of Secularity 18514 Provincializing Europe 195Notes 197

Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited; Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; The Ethics of Authenticity; Hegel; and the essay “The Politics of Recognition,” which appeared in Multiculturalism (edited by Amy Gutmann).

“Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order-but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity’s defining cultural formations. His particular take on the ‘social imaginary’ makes the strongest case there is for the idea of ‘multiple modernities.’”-Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University

• Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 11 The Modern Moral Order 32 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 233 the Specter of idealism 314 The Great Disembedding 495 The Economy as Objectified Reality 696 The Public Sphere 837 Public and Private 1018 The Sovereign People 1099 An All-Pervasive Order 14310 The Direct-Access Society 15511 Agency and Objectification 16312 Modes of Narration 17513 The Meaning of Secularity 18514 Provincializing Europe 195Notes 197

Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University, and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited; Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; The Ethics of Authenticity; Hegel; and the essay “The Politics of Recognition,” which appeared in Multiculturalism (edited by Amy Gutmann).

“Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order-but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity’s defining cultural formations. His particular take on the ‘social imaginary’ makes the strongest case there is for the idea of ‘multiple modernities.’”-Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University

• Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 11 The Modern Moral Order 32 What Is a "Social Imaginary"? 233 the Specter of idealism 314 The Great Disembedding 495 The Economy as Objectified Reality 696 The Public Sphere 837 Public and Private 1018 The Sovereign People 1099 An All-Pervasive Order 14310 The Direct-Access Society 15511 Agency and Objectification 16312 Modes of Narration 17513 The Meaning of Secularity 18514 Provincializing Europe 195Notes 197