The Philosophical Genealogy of Taylor's Social Imaginaries

A Complex History of Ideas and Predecessors

Bibliographic Data

ID5305697
AuthorsGuido Vanheeswijck (0000-0002-0353-330X, corresponding author), Guido M Vanheeswijck
Year2017
Volume78
Issue3
Pages473-496
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2017.0026
PMID28757490
OpenAlexW2737858337
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

The deepest sources of Charles Taylor's use of the concept "social imaginaries" are often related to political philosophy or social anthropology (Anderson, Castoriadis). The purpose of this article is to show that they also form part of Taylor's struggle to overcome the epistemological construal in modern philosophy and culture. Taylor locates the concept "social imaginaries" in the Kantian tradition, identifying their role to that of transcendental schemes. However, there remains a central difference between Kant's transcendental schemes and Taylor's social imaginaries. To elucidate that difference, this article will track the philosophical genealogy of Taylor's concept of "social imaginaries" in three steps

Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Taylor series · Transcendental number · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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