There are always more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one's philosophy - and in those essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributious to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again. -- Book Cover