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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... contemporary truths of the West are procedural and economic: the rule of. 1 Compare, e.g., K. Karst, “The Bonds of American Nationhood,” 21 Cardozo L. Rev. 1141 (2000), with S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of ...
... contemporary missionaries preach democracy , free markets , and the rule of law - all institutions founded on our belief in the equal- ity and liberty of every person . This dogged commitment to a universal community is a product of ...
... Contemporary liberal thought—particularly in the form of the human rights. 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law raises particular prob- lems for international law. See P. Kahn, “American Hegemony and International ...
Paul W. Kahn. Contemporary liberal thought—particularly in the form of the human rights movement—has challenged both of these ontological claims: law is to be freed from sovereignty. But we will never under- stand the character of the ...
... Contemporary liberal theorists might respond that their position is political,. later, he disavows this claim, saying now that his effort is only to provide “an account of reasonable principles of justice” (J. Rawls, Political Liberalism ...
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