---

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West. A partnership between Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor´s thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors can be amended, and to provide a specific cartography of how we can responsibly and meaningfully explore new possibilities for ethics, political society, and religion in a post-modern modernity.

---

1. Introduction: What a Better Epistemology Can Do For Moral Philosophy

Part I: An Epistemological Revolution

2. Converging Roads around Dilemmas of Modernity

3. Dialogue, Discovery, and an Open Future: Charles Taylor in Conversation

Part Ii: Projects, Possibilities and Challenges

4. The Projects of Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor

5. Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity

6. ´Transcendence´ In A Secular Age And Enchanted (Un)Naturalism

Part Iii: Toward A New Modernity: Taylor And Polanyi In Conversation

7. Polanyi´s Revolutionary Imaginary

8. Overcoming the Scientistic Imaginary

9. On Emergentist Ethics and Becoming Authentic

10. Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems

11. The Importance of Engagement: Taylor, Fennell, Lowney, and Yeager in Conversation

12. Epilogue: Robust Moral Realism: Pluralist or Emergent?

---

Charles W. Lowney II is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins University, Virginia, USA.

---