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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... create a space from within which to assess our own normative beliefs and practices, which include, but are hardly exhausted by, liberalism. This is not a neutral space from which to judge others, nor a space from within which we can ...
... creating and maintaining itself. Voting is only a particular act, while participation in the popular sovereign is constitutive of the citizen's self-understanding. In considering the problems of cultural pluralism, we have been the ...
... create a form of public discourse in which these differences would have no significance. This is the ambition behind the effort to theorize from the perspective of Rawls's original position. From the point of view of this imagined ...
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