The Architecture of Freedom: Charles Taylor’s Monumental Interpretation of Hegel
Because we are living the dialectic of alienation and recognition. Hegel Charles Taylor
Taylor’s genius was to show that Hegel was wrestling with the same problem that haunts contemporary liberalism: . How did we get from the cohesive, unreflective life of the ancient Greek polis to the lonely, calculating, bureaucratic world of modern capitalism? Hegel’s answer, according to Taylor, lies in the dialectic. according to Taylor