| Brief Biography: |
1931 |
Born in Montreal, Canada |
| 1952 |
B.A. (History), McGill University; Rhodes Scholar to University of Oxford |
| 1955 |
B.A. (Philosophy, Politics & Economics), University of Oxford |
| 1956-1961 |
Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford; Studied under Isaiah Berlin |
| 1960 |
M.A., University of Oxford |
| 1961 |
Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Oxford |
| 1961-1971 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University |
| 1962-1971 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal |
| 1972 |
Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University |
| 1974, 1983 |
Mills Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1976 |
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford |
| 1984 |
Suhrkamp Lecturer, University of Frankfurt |
| 1992 |
Tanner Lecturer, Stanford University |
| 1996 |
Max Horkheimer Lecturer, University of Frankfurt |
| 1998 |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, McGill University |
| 2002-2007 |
Board of Trustees, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University |
| Selected Awards and Honors: |
| 1992 |
Le Prix Léon-Gérin, Gouvernement du Québec |
| 1995 |
Companion of the Order of Canada |
| 2000 |
Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Québec |
| 2007 |
Templeton Prize, John Templeton Foundation |
| Member |
British Academy, Royal Society of Canada, American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
| Selected Publications: |
| 1975 |
Hegel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge |
| 1979 |
Hegel and Modern Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge |
1989 |
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1991 |
The Ethics of Authenticity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1992 |
Multiculturalism, Amy Gutman et al., Princeton University Press, Princeton |
| 1998 |
A Catholic Modernity?, James L. Heft et al., Oxford University Press, New York |
| 2004 |
Modern Social Imaginaries, Duke University Press, Durham |
| 2007 |
A Secular Age, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. |
