Charles Taylor is Professor em. of Philosophy at McGill University, Montreal, and Permanent Fellow at the IWM, Vienna. Born in Canada in 1931, he studied at McGill University and Oxford University, where he received his PhD in 1961. He teaches philosophy at McGill University and was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford, Princeton, Berkeley, Frankfurt a. M., and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Amongst others he was awarded the 2007 Templeton Price and the 2008 Kyoto Price, which is one of the world's leading awards for lifetime achievements in the social sciences and humanties.

His main research fields are: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Social Science, Political Theory, Greek Political Thought, Moral Philosophy, the Culture of Western Modernity, Philosophy of Language, Theories of Meaning, Language and Politics, German Idealism, Religion and Secularism.

Selected Publications

Für einen neuen Säkularismus, in: Transit - Europäische Revue, 39/2010

A Secular Age, Harvard University Press, 2007
Ein säkulares Zeitalter, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2009

Varieties of Religion Today. IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, Harvard University Press, 2002
Die Formen des Religiösen in der Gegenwart. IWM Vorlesungen zu den Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2002
Oblicza religii dzisiaj, Cracow: Znak, 2002

Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Princeton University Press, 1992
Multikulturalismus und die Politik der Anerkennung, Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Verlag, 1997

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Harvard University Press, 1989
Quellen des Selbst. Die Entstehung der neuzeitlichen Identität, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1994

Hegel, Cambridge University Press, 1975
Hegel, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2006 (5. Aufl.)