Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.
Taylor is one of the handful of most important thinkers of our era. The line of thinking he develops in The Language Animal is basic to his whole work since Explanation of Behaviour. Many readers will grasp the importance of a constitutive view of language, and for them this will be a landmark book.--Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science