Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 páginas In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We can understand this modern condition only by recognizing that any political community, even a liberal one, is bound together by faith, love, and identity. |
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... Beyond Reason and Interest 145 5. The Erotic Body 183 6. The Autonomy of the Political in the Modern Nation-State 228 Conclusion: The Future of the Nation-State 291 Index 315 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have been thinking about the arguments in this.
Paul W. Kahn. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. I have been thinking about the arguments in this book for a long time. I have pursued them in many different contexts and with many different scholars. Colleagues, students, and friends have all taken the ...
... Yoder, 406 U.S. at 244 (Douglas, J., dissenting) (arguing that Amish children have cognizable interests that may depart from those of their parents). 8 See, e.g., Bangkok Declaration, adopted at the World Human 4 □ INTRODUCTION.
... argument to those. 11 For a skeptical view of statements of Christian ends, see A. Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost (1999); see also, E. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays 411, 429 (2000). 12 A good example is Huntington, The ...
... argument. But for those who find that autonomy an obvious and undeniable first principle, no claims by the other— whether the parishioner, the communitarian or the multiculturalist— will shake that faith. If arguments from first ...
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