Charles Taylor Interviewed. “Depending on your philosophical perspective, Charles Taylor is either the philosopher of
the self par excellence or the thinker who writes about everything else but the self. His
comprehensive conception of identity incorporates philosophical, historical, political,
sociological, anthropological, psychological, religious and aesthetic elements, stepping
across the boundaries that standardly separate philosophy from other disciplines.” Taylor finds that modern Western secular society is a stark forbidding place for a self to be. The Philosophers’ Magazine on the Internet