The Philosophy Now series promises to combine rigorous analysis with authoritative expositions. Ruth Abbey’s book lives up to this demand by being a clear, reliable and more than up-to-date introduction to Charles Taylor’s philosophy. Although it is an introductory book, the amount of footnotes and references ought to please those who want to study the original texts more closely. Abbey’s book is structured thematically: morality, selfhood, politics and epistemology get 50 pages each. The focus is on the internal coherence of Taylor’s work, not in its critique of or defence against other positions. The chapters are self-containing, but together they give a good total picture of Taylor’s position. The concluding chapter is a highly interesting preview of Taylor’s unpublished work-in-progress on secularity, which according to Abbey is comparable in magnitude to Sources of the Self.