Chapter 17 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Its Roots Were Not All Material
June 2nd, 2010
It is merely a materialist-economistic prejudice to insist that such a rhetorical change from aristocratic-religious values to bourgeois values must have had economic or biological roots. It can of course have had instead, or also, legal, political, personal, social, class, gender, religious, philosophical, historical, linguistic, journalistic, literary, artistic, accidental roots. Charles Taylor attributes the rhetorical (more…)
