Western culture is pervaded by fundamental attitudes towards death and the possibility of transcendence. Basic guidelines for this philosophical background are essential for the second main topic of the dialogue.
Charles Taylor (Canada, 1931) received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Oxford in 1961. Since then he has been an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor at McGill University, with various additional appointments such as Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), Princeton, Oxford and U.C. Berkeley. Author of several well-known books such as The Explanation of Behaviour (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964), Hegel (Cambridge, 1975), and Sources of the Self (Harvard, 1989). He is also a frequent contributor to several professional philosophical journals.
