Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …
‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche, [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
‘What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet or exercise or genes or location. It …
“In his book on the Moroccan city of Fez, ‘Fez: City of Islam’, Titus Burckhardt describes a meeting with an …
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.