The majority of this collection of essays, dating from the mid-1990s to the present, has appeared before in a variety of other volumes. Four essays are new. A fifth, “What Does Secularism Mean?,” is listed as new, but has since appeared as “Western Secularity” in Rethinking Secularism, (Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, eds. [New York: Oxford University, 2011]). Three of these new essays (326–75) expand on—and to some extent duplicate—material from A Secular Age. These essays give further shape to Taylor's claim in that book that the secular/religious divide was produced during the Enlightenment yet capitalizes on instabilities in religion after what Jaspers termed the “axial age,” and that the divide prohibits our contemporary culture from solving problems in ways that do not hysterically reproduce and sediment culture wars. The fourth new essay (56–77) is a stunningly beautiful piece on the poetics of Paul Celan. In this volume, it follows a critique of the neopragmatism of Robert Brandom that was originally published in 2008; as a result, the reader finds in Celan an exemplar of what is lost from thinking when one makes the post-metaphysical turn. Whether Celan's poems are adequate evidence for Taylor's views is open to question, but this volume helps to clarify what Taylor wants his audience to hear.