Sources of the Self identity sometimes brilliant and deeply flawed

sometimes brilliant and deeply flawed vision

Scoring was the easy part

A memoir of a powerful and haunting journey through childhood grief and suicide to find a life of meaning and peace

many new to the foreign reader

the search for home as the child of immigrants and the anxious underbelly of artistic ambition

Sources of the Self identity sometimes brilliant and deeply flawedIn this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led it seems to many to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human