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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

1992, Charles Taylor

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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press. It is an attempt to articulate and to write a history of the "modern identity".

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