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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... debate and protected as a matter of fundamental law. This, for example, was the process marked by Roe v. Wade with respect to the right to choose an abortion. The most difficult internal clashes that we confront tend to emerge from ...
... debate that will result in mutual agreement. No one, we believe, is beyond conversion to our values. When we dream of a global order, we project our own values onto it. We do not imagine that the global community of the future will be ...
... this conception of self-exploration in P. Kahn, The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship (2000). 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberalism 8 □ INTRODUCTION.
... debate framed by these oppositions leaves out or fails to see. Most of all, liberalism fails to see the way in which citizens committed to American political culture occupy a meaningful world. It fails to see what I will describe as the ...
... transgressed in both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberalism and the Moral Life 159 (N. Rosenblum, ed., 1989). 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law 10 □ INTRODUCTION.
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