Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet)
&ldquo;Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order&mdash;but not only to them. Anyone who wishes, as I do, to defend transcultural political ideals, notions of development, or the like, will have to face his formidable array of hermeneutically inspired reflections on Western modernity&rsquo;s defining cultural formations. His particular take on the &lsquo;social imaginary&rsquo; makes the strongest case there is for the idea of &lsquo;multiple modernities.&rsquo;&rdquo;&mdash;Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University