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Charles Taylor  

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  • Charles Taylor (b. 1931), Canadian social theorist and philosopher of modernity, is an advocate of the hermeneutic approach to social scientific research and author of the highly regarded Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Taylor, Charles]

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