Overview

Over the past four decades, Charles Taylor's work as an intellectual historian, epistemologist, and normative political theorist has made him a leading figure in contemporary social philosophy.

Book Focus

In Charles Taylor: Thinking and Living Deep Diversity, Mark Redhead examines the problem of political fragmentation, the problem of how to accommodate narrowly defined groups while promoting allegiance to a larger polity, through an analysis of Taylor's thought and politics.

Redhead's Argument

Redhead argues that Taylor's work evinces a gallant, though unsuccessful confrontation with fragmentation that dramatically illuminates the political, moral, and epistemological tensions at play in a problem of political fragmentation.

Significance

Charles Taylor is both a major contribution to contemporary debates about liberalism, group rights, and multiculturalism as well as a path-breaking study of the politics, life, and thought of Charles Taylor.