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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... 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.
... body is displaced by a more plastic and disembodied conception of a subject who locates the self in a variety of networked relationships: economic, informational, and communicative. Many of the tensions in contemporary political life ...
... body as the expression of an idea. For the will, the body is a point of revelation of a meaning that simultaneously defines the self and is greater than the self. Thus, will is intimately connected to love. In love, the body appears ...
... body; the political always seems to bridge the private and the public. The conceptual apparatus of liberalism is ... body. Meaning is not of the body, but it is certainly in the body. The body is “read” as the expression of an idea. The ...
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