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Category Archives: Charles Taylor
What the Clinician Knows: The Career of Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom (b. June 18, 1953) writes fiction, memoir, essays, and television scripts, and she trained and practiced as a psychotherapist for more than twenty years before she built her literary reputation. The sequence reverses the usual one. Most novelists … Continue reading
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The Buffered Twenties
Smart educated young men in their twenties live at the peak of buffered self-confidence. The buffered self believes it stands outside its history. It treats inheritance as background, family as embarrassment, body as instrument, name as preference, career as canvas. … Continue reading
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Lack Of Meaning Vs Too Much Meaning
In the buffered identity, the decisive forces lie within: the capacity to choose right from wrong, to create meaning, and to chart one’s life with autonomy and strategy. In the porous identity, the decisive forces lie without: the world presses … Continue reading
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The Logical Song by Supertramp
Here are the lyrics to one of my favorite songs: When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so … Continue reading
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A Secular Age (2007)
Philosopher Charles Taylor writes in his classic work: * There are remains today of the stance which links illness to sin. Think of the reaction of some people to the AIDS epidemic; or the way people with cancer are often … Continue reading
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