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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... citizens commit- ted to American political culture occupy a meaningful world. It fails to see what I will describe ... citizen's body is dis- placed by a more plastic and disembodied conception of a subject who locates the self in a ...
... citizens will put survival of a particular polit- ical community ahead of their own survival. Liberal theorists tend to take the political community as given and set out to construct the rules that should operate within that commu- nity ...
... citizen as an ultimate value, that is, one for which the citizen may be asked to sacrifice his or her life. Liberal thought, as well as liberal politics, believes claims for sacrifice are exterior to the purposes and functions of a ...
... citizens—that they have failed to focus on the ways in which our politics remains deeply enmeshed in war and the threat of war.25 Citizens understand themselves not just in terms of a legal order 23 See J. Rawls, “Justice as Fairness ...
... citizens. The rule of law does, but this is law severed from its connection to sovereignty. This emerging networked self is not sufficiently bound to any single conception of the content to re- spond to a claim for sacrifice. Rather ...
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