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This chapter examines Taylor’s social imaginaries and his work on the natural environment. I extend this approach to examine Taylor’s engaged agency thereby putting us in touch with the natural environment.
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Lehman, G. (2015). Taylor’s Interpretivism, Social Imaginaries and the Natural Environment. In: Charles Taylor’s Ecological Conversations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137524782_4
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