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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... expression and life in the rule of law. Rights, markets, and limited government are transnational norms. The liberal discourse of law easily becomes a universal discourse, that is, the rule of law is not bound to a particular political ...
... expression of, the nation, which confronts us as an ultimate value. This is never a matter of abstract reason or of the particularity of interest. Neither can account for our sense of the nation as a unique historical actor, nor of ...
... expression of an idea. The primary terms of this reading of ourselves involve love and politics, both of which are characterized by sacrifice. We know who we are when we know the concerns for which we are willing to sacrifice. These are ...
... expression of who we. 1 See R. Unger, Knowledge and Politics 6 (1975). (“Liberalism must be seen as all of a piece, not just as a set of doctrines about the opposition of power and wealth, but as a metaphysical conception of the mind and ...
Paul W. Kahn. political philosophies all contribute to an expression of who we are and what we stand for. Literature and art, as well as popular culture, also operate here. My point of access to our liberal culture, however, is through ...
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