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A Secular Age - Reviewed
Monday January 21, 2008

A Secular Age

It’s been a busy few weeks, and now I’m throwing myself back into teaching in earnest, as well as working on a proposal for a philosophy book; so I have not had a chance to write much here at thinkBuddha for a few days. But a few days ago, I was reassured by a quote that I stumbled upon from the physicist Wolfgang Pauli: “I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”

Anyway, one of the other things I’ve had on the go is that I’ve been working on a review of Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age. It is a formidable doorstop of a book, and after reading it, it took several weeks for the dust to settle before I could put some thoughts down on paper. It is in many ways an impressive book, but at the same time it seems to me to be a deeply peculiar one. I hope that I have been faithful to both these responses in the review, which is now up in my reviews section, and which can be accessed by clicking the link here.

 

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