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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... contract. I. Title. JC574.2.U6K34 2005 320.51′0973—dc22 2004049132 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the United ...
... contract, but it cannot grasp the erotic character of the experience of political meaning. Attachment to the political community is a matter not of contract but of love. That which we will do for love cannot always find its measure in ...
... contract—the social contract, as well as market contracts. Contract, after all, seems to be nothing other than a formalization and stabilization of the individual's will. Liberalism does indeed model its understanding of the will on the ...
... contract must be set within an understanding of politics as sacrifice. Love and sacrifice are the terms within which we conduct a meaningful life. Politics hardly exhausts the domain of love and sacrifice, but it does compete with other ...
... contract. This is the pivotal point of the book. Prior to this, my technique is essentially critical. From this point forward, I offer a positive account of the shape of our experience within this dimension of the will. Chapter 4 makes ...
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