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Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness: A Non-Western Response<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philosophers such as Charles Taylor have claimed that selfhood is a distinctly modern phenomenon, associated with inwardness, inner depths, and creativity. In this conception, selfhood is defined in terms of \u201cradical reflexivity\u201d, which saw its emergence with the likes of Descartes. Thus, according to Taylor, it is only with modern people that we see the appearance of selfhood and subjectivity, whereas premoderns did not have a notion of the self, because they lacked the essential conceptions of inwardness and reflexivity. The aim of this lecture is to challenge and overturn this thesis by presenting how various Sufi\u2013Islamic authors placed \u201cinwardness and reflexivity\u201d at the center of their conceptions of the self, while emphasizing its ambivalent nature.<\/p>\n

杏吧原创 the Lecturer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muhammad U. Faruque is the Inayat Malik Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. His research lies at the intersection of religion, science, and philosophy, especially in relation to the Islamic intellectual tradition. His highly acclaimed book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) addresses \u201cwhat it means to be human\u201d in a secular, postEnlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. Dr. Faruque is the author of forty academic articles which have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[45],"event-audience":[],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"\nCharles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness: A Non-Western Response - Events - 杏吧原创 Centre for the Study of Islam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness: A Non-Western Response Philosophers such as Charles Taylor have claimed that selfhood is a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/islamstudies\/cu-events\/charles-taylor-and-the-invention-of-modern-inwardness-a-non-western-response-2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/islamstudies\/cu-events\/charles-taylor-and-the-invention-of-modern-inwardness-a-non-western-response-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/islamstudies\/cu-events\/charles-taylor-and-the-invention-of-modern-inwardness-a-non-western-response-2\/\",\"name\":\"Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness: A Non-Western Response - 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