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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... distinction as advocacy versus ontology.14 Taylor notes that to criticize liberalism's understanding of the nature of the subject (the ontological perspective) does not commit one to a similar criticism of liberal politics (the advocacy ...
Paul W. Kahn. should do. Second, the distinction is consistently transgressed in both directions. Beliefs about the character of the subject and about policies reciprocally affect each other. The pursuit of liberal norms as a matter of ...
... distinction between law and sovereignty. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, God speaks the world into being. There is a difference between God's speaking and Law—Speaking Law to Power: Popular Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the New ...
... distinction into a description of opposition within a democratic debate, that is, they have tried to deploy Schmitt within liberalism's preferred model of politics as speech. See, e.g., C. Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (2000). My ...
... distinction between the private and the public. These elements have a history as well as a conceptual shape. The broad character of the inquiry, its historical sweep, and its crossing of genres—history, law, religion, literature, and ...
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